Jay McInerney Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.
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My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.
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I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.
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I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
