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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#bad #either #finished #funny #good

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day. ↗

— Glenn Quinn

#believe #day #during #egomaniac #enough

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#anyone #bridge #justice #lawyers #operators

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#became #before #colin #colin powell #even

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#close #close friends #could #dinner #dinner parties

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#evangelicals #fundamentalist #jews #muslims #only

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#advice #bush #depends #did #find

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#easy #music #never #success

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#administration #because #charity #come #events

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. ↗

— Quintilian

#ever #genius #happens #maturity #premature