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Michael Dirda Quotes

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Wise House Sometimes Swing Fiction

The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.

Life Love Friend Father Truth Best

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

Future Road Destiny Person Avoid He

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Life Words Think Understand Still

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Singing America Years Stage Up Big

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Myself Never Normal Being Much

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

City Succeed Choices You Educated

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

World Small Small Town Standards Up

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Me Process Attention Acting Pay

'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

Great Myself Surprise Jump Street

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

Jonas Armstrong

Money Yourself You Find Sometimes

I've always just kind of been a single-minded person.

Person Kind Always Been Just

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Like TV Depends

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