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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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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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I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'
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I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.
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Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.
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My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.
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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.
