Michael Dirda Quotes
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.
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I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
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The smile on your lips brings the summer sunshine, the tears in your eyes bring the rain. I feel your touch, you warm embrace, and I'm in heaven again.
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In my case, everything paid off, and I have no regrets.
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I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
