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Michael Dirda Quotes

Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Start February Reading Easy Way

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

Universe Big Bang Theory Big Origin

When something is coming off of a Neve board and being laid down on tape, it's like a warm blanket for the brain. When you're working in a digital form, it's so harsh; it's almost painful. Your ears get more fatigued if you're mixing all day.

Day Brain Warm You Down Digital

I would say 20 percent of my time is alone, which I love.

Love Alone Time Say Would Percent

The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

Together Media Difference Everything

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Thinking Audience Watch Film Give

The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can't we? Something's been lost in music. It's all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed.

Music World Tools Down Lost Why

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Life Music Sad Easy Part

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

City You Country Admit Nothing Real

My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Rodney Dangerfield

Find Gay London Clock Out Big

Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each show, and that's what inspired me to live my dream, so the fact that I am getting recognition from them, it's mind-blowing.

Live I Am Me Growing Up Recognition

I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.

Me Hurt You Cut Guy Bleed

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Nature Flower Without Star Could

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