P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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Love is the one wild card.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.
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When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
