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Michael Dirda Quotes

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.

Michael Dirda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Friendship Reading You Find Out

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

John Cusack

Good Time Art Challenge Man You

I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.

Melissa Joan Hart

Live Together Get Get Married

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Robert Redford

Life My Life You Television Go See

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Robert Kennedy

Freedom Man Diversity America Answer

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

Matthew Desmond

Result More Than Much Inevitability

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Meaning Between Scholars Word

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

Mary Balogh

Success Writing Book Plan Year Back

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Michael Palin

Happy People Me I Can Seem Quite

You are going to have bad days and have good days.

Lou Ferrigno

Good You Bad Bad Days Days Going

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

January Jones

You Why Show Off Something Show Off

I go to the movies a lot on off days. I exercise. I have routines that I go by.

Jason Isbell

Exercise Go Movies Days Off Lot

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

Josh Hartnett

You Back Horror Watching Real See