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 wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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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.
