Jay McInerney Quotes
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.
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Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.
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...the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric the English constitution...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
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When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
