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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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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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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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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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
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I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.
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Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.
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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.
