P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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I just write mechanical things.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
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I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
