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Michael Dirda Quotes

Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Home Places Pencil Bring Postcards

I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.

Man Broken School Me Doing Summer

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Government Opinion Violence Act

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Betrayal Nothing Who Knows Ecstasy

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Success Failure Great Think Learn

In tech-land, no one cares what kind of car you drive, and frankly, they're not going to find out anyway. You're not going to go to lunch together, because you're going to be sitting in your cube with a brown bag eating lunch.

Car Together Lunch Eating Drive Bag

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Martin Winterkorn

Important Will The Most Important

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

Internet Stop March Mean Going

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they're very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina... It takes a toll on their body, too.

Fun People Powerful Body Look Big

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

Dermot Mulroney

Family Tree Fun Conflict Think You

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

Christopher Lee

Fear You Los Angeles Smell Lived

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

Hope Dangerous Circus Will Always

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