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Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.


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JAY KAY Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud o...
JAY PARINI I have always found the baptism of Jesus, with a dove descending and voice from Heaven, one of the g...
JAY PARINI Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about ...
JAY-Z I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not ...
JAY PHAROAH Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses again...
JAY SAMIT I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe...
JAY-Z Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
JAY LENO We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, s...
JAY GARNER Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't eve...
JAY-Z Providing - that's not love. Being there - that's more important. I mean, we see that. We se...
JAY-Z The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifu...
JAY PARINI YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the f...
JAY SAMIT Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for buildi...
JAY SAMIT Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the...
JAY SAMIT I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house i...
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