Michael Dirda Quotes

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

Michael Dirda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

TimeWalkPastPeopleLovedLook

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Jim Jarmusch

MeStartThinkSayCriticsAlways

I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.

Jenna Morasca

LifeMy LifeWishTalkingNever

I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.

John Cornyn

RespectPeopleThinkChoiceCountry

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

Andie MacDowell

MeYouLookWantGrandmotherOld

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

Jeff Dunham

AgeCharacterCollegeFirstJokes

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

Johnathon Schaech

WorkThinkYouBackFindDown

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

Steve Bannon

PeaceReligionIslamSubmission

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

Stanley Tucci

ActorBeingJustDissatisfied

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

TrustJobEffortLawConflictWorth

Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.

Robert Englund

YouTelevisionNewSometimesKid

I just found such a love for dancing. If anybody would love to just feel great, not just physically, but you want to feel such confidence, just go and take a ballroom dancing class! I love it more than any kind of workout.

Rumer Willis

LoveConfidenceGreatFeelYouKind

To be able to watch something that you start on your television that you then move to your mobile device, I think that's a big benefit for the content business.

Jon Feltheimer

BusinessStartThinkYouTelevision

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Michael Dirda