P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
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I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.
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As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening in their lives that is more important than theatre - some kind of tragedy they were attending to, or something. It's very uncomfortable if you don't know why they would pick up a phone and talk in the middle of a show.
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
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I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
