P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
