Michael Dirda Quotes

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

Michael Dirda

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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.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Foundation

• 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.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hockey
  • Canada
  • Ice

• I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Ups And Downs

• 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.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• I will know him by his eyes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Know
  • Eyes
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Danger
  • Wealthy
  • Aspiration

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Theatre

• You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Character
  • Think
  • Me

• You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Family
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • May
  • Mean
  • Independence

• My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Work
  • Director
  • Limited

• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Power
  • Lie
  • Falsehood

• I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • China
  • Communist state

• The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Clear
  • Message
  • Faithful