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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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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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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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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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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As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
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For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
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I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.
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Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.
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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.
