P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.

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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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I am a just man.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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I'm very happy alone.
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
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For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
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I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.
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I was always the leading man's best friend's best friend.
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Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.