Michael Dirda Quotes
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.
Michael Dirda
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
Frances Conroy
I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
Anton Zaslavski
Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
Garry Trudeau
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
Irwin Winkler
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
Karen Gillan
You must be wise, but not too wise.
Alexander Turney Stewart
I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
Martin Parr
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
Van Jones
I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.
Lucy Dacus
There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.
Pete Hamill
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.
Michael Dirda
