P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
