Jay McInerney Quotes
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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Wandering creates the desert.
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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
