Michael Dirda Quotes

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

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HomeCultureReadingSelfEscape

We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

Robert J. Shiller

SpiritualEconomicsEngineeringJudge

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

Jeff Baena

MyselfExperienceI AmPeopleStrong

Grooming is 10 times more important than makeup. I use a hair gloss with a teeny bit of color in it that makes my hair very shiny.

Stephanie Seymour

HairMakeupColorImportantMore

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Sidney Poitier

LiveJobPeopleCountryGoEat

I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

Tracy Reese

ManBusyPartnerInterestingLike

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Michael Patrick Jann

FunnySportsFriendsGroupShooting

When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.

Johnny Gimble

TexasBandSameCliffRadioPlaying

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

Johnny Van Zant

PeopleYouBadSome PeopleAnything

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

Piers Anthony

GoodHopeLightWaitingTroubleSee

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

Sherilyn Fenn

TheatreLovedKnowSaidUnderstand

My priorities are to continue to fight for manufacturing in my state and for jobs and health care and deal with lead issues in my beloved city of Cleveland, where I live, and every other city in the industrial Midwest.

Sherrod Brown

LiveHealthFightCityCareLead

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.

Ryan Holmes

CommunicationSocial MediaMediaNew

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