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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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and good. But it also suggests that there is an individual approach to the issues that many of these white people have taken up as a recognition of their tie to and responsibility for some of the inequities that exist. And I don't think it has to be an either-or. I think it has to be a bifocal approach.
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
