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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Power Politics Achieve Without Merit

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

John Cameron Mitchell

Meditation New Skill Knowing Would

Harmonies are nice.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

Think Goal Go Say Go For It Will

I call America our emerging market. They find it very amusing when I said that.

America Find Said Call Market Our

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

People Someone You Find Goal Know

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Moment Words Impossible Less Laid

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Relationship Great Mother-In-Law Both

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.

Music Texas Country Nashville Just

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Passion Trying Actor Never Out

My mother was never very famous when I was growing up, so it wasn't so difficult. It was only when I left home and went to university that she become this style icon.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Mother Home Style Growing Up Famous

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Passion Quality Desire Important

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