P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
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I've always known I wanted to go into acting, but being a very proud teenager, I wasn't ready to admit it until I felt like it was going to be possible.
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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
