P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
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Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.
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Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.
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I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.
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But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight -Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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I'm a real foodie.
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When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.
