P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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You have to be yourself.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Golf is not easy.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I want to try everything.
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I love simplicity.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
