P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
