Michael Dirda Quotes
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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I am married.
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All children should have equal opportunities.
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The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.
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I think as an actor you can feel when something's right and when something's resonating. I don't think that there's necessarily a right and a wrong. I think it's just a matter of being honest and telling a story.
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I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them.
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The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
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I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening to a lot of classical music lately for some reason. I used to do that a lot when I was doing cabinet making in New England. I've sort of returned to that for some reason. That might be surprising to people.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
