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 don't like rock opera with back beats.
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
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A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.
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I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
