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Michael Dirda Quotes

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Time Writing Book Reading Living

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Architecture Better Buildings Look

When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.

Spiritual Body Blood Living Through

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

Education Success Support Building

Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.

Fear Eyes Walls I Am Trying Country

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.

Technology Great Time Brain Reading

When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.

Struggle You Everyone Weight Sees

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin

Age Moment Youth Know Become Always

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Learning School Go Done Out Up

I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair.

Christina Hendricks

Beautiful Red Me Green Hair Her

I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.

Great Myself Football Learn Trade

It doesn't matter what size your hips are when you measure them. It's about, 'Do you feel good and healthy in those hips?'

Good Feel Good Feel You Measure

In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence.

Pierre Nanterme

Life Innovation Focus Architecture

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