P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period!
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
