"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."

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Source : Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

Jimmy Breslin

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“I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed me in my work. But I couldn't quite figure out how to lead beyond my immediate experience. Then I was just standing at the kitchen sink, and I watched the sun rise, and I thought, "How many hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same sun rise right now?" I just knew the poem would go from that line.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.”

Source : Song: Life's Been Good
“I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.”
“It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.”

Source : "Busted bust up". Kerrang! Magazine, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.
“You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.”

Source : "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
“I think we all want to be Gisele BÃ¼ndchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”
“We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.”
“I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.”

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