P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.
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Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,And the sea to adventure upon.But the sun and the sandNo contractor can copy;We lie in the landOf the lotus and poppy;We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.
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The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.
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I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
