P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.
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I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.
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Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
