Jay McInerney Quotes

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

Jay McInerney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1955

Topics

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And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Joan Collins

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A lot of people might gawk at it, but I really love 'Revenge of the Sith' because of what happens to Anakin.

Matt Lanter

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I am a very impatient director.

Steven Spielberg

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Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

Roger Stone

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I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

Ronda Rousey

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Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

Michael Seibel

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Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Chuck Hagel

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Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

Bob Etheridge

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I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Anthony Michael Hall

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I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

Ali MacGraw

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We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.

Tituss Burgess

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You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

Richard Madden

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