Jay Parini Quotes
I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I owe everything to France.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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I feel pretty good about having an experienced guy like John back there. He's been through some battles before, and we'll need him to lead us through some more battles when we start our season. I'm counting on John to do some good things for us and get us prepared.
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I've said all along we need a chief executive, not a chief politician, in the White House.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
