Michael Dirda Quotes

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

Michael Dirda

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I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.

Jeremy Allen White

GreatThinkMoreAudienceGotShow

My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.

Meghan McCain

AgeHonestyBestExperiencePeople

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John Prendergast

CourageGoAfricaSeeI See

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Tommy Chong

PrisonTopRightHierarchy

There's a way you have to play the quarterback position in the NFL. Maybe I'm a little bit old school, but I think you have to play the game in the pocket with consistency.

Ron Jaworski

SchoolConsistencyGameThinkYou

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

Joseph Hume

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He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Joseph P. Kennedy

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For working-class families and small businesses... we have got to find ways to lower energy costs.

Chris Gibson

SmallEnergyFindGotCostsWays

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Chris Isaak

WorryYouNewNowActorRight

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Boris Spassky

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While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

Alice Munro

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I am fed up with career politicians. I am tired of going into the voting booth and holding my nose to pick the least worst candidate on the ballot.

Todd Wilcox

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