Jay McInerney Quotes

I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.

Jay McInerney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

Joe Penny

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Growth is not the end-all-goal of politics, but it is one of the most compelling deliverables.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

John Goodman

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I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

Jennette McCurdy

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We can divide bitcoin people into two camps: one that goes along with the existing system and wants it to work complimentarily with the existing system, and then the other half is basically religiously opposed and wants to invent a libertarian, regulation-free world.

Melanie Swan

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Tryon Edwards

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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

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You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in the right place at the right time. So you have to be an overall athlete: you need to be in shape to be able to throw.

Michelle Carter

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We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Michelle Obama

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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Louisa May Alcott

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I just - I love my job. I love doing it. It's a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.

Donald Sutherland

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I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Christina Applegate

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