P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.
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You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
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I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.
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France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.
