P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
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I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
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There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
