P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
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'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
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When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.
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I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.
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It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.
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Democrats hate success.
