P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
