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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Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
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Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
