P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
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I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
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Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.
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Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'
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If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
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Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
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When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
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During the day I don't wear much makeup.
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You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.
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If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
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There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.
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Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
