P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I am happy in Paris.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
