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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Cards Christmas Greeting Send

All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.

Goal More Broadway Than Wanted Ever

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

Family Good Mother People Friends

The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.

Jennifer Coolidge

People Me Stupid View Career

One of the U.S. Soccer Federation's points is that it's an honour and a privilege to to play for this country, and it is. But we also represent the entire country, and the idea of liberty and justice isn't afforded to everyone.

Justice Soccer Country Liberty Play

My wardrobe for 'Suits' isn't like 'Working Girl' - dressing for work doesn't have to be so on-the-nose these days. The key is to have your own point of view attached to it. Personally, I love cropped pants in vegan leather, a great fitted blazer, and a button-down.

Work Love Girl Great Key Suits

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

Fighting You Know First Bills Pays

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

Work Hard Work Intelligence Matters

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

Women Today Time City Think Run

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

Money Disappear Make Field Gotta

I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.

Dominic Monaghan

Waiting People Me Wait Enough You

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Yourself Think You Mad Know Gone

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Christopher Durang

Funny Sad Balance Parents Me Care

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