P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.
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If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I get to say I was in a movie.
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It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.
