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Michael Dirda Quotes

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

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Remember Back Television Christmas

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Creative Comedy Growing Mine Like

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Great Ideas American Long Journalism

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Rosalind Russell

Beauty You See Where Deprivation

I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

Moving Thought Down Keep Moving Keep

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

Seeing Feeling Intellectual Shy Who

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

Work Think Thinking Back Why Out

When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I?

Love Balance Book Kind Lucky Leap

I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

Love Home Hate Feel Three Complain

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

Colin Trevorrow

Home Me Feel San Francisco Northwest

After a couple of years at Vertigo, I realized that if I was going to be a professional artist, I'd have to devote myself to it full time, so I ended up leaving my job there and went freelance.

Time Myself Job Artist Professional

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Business Science Reading Enjoy Two

Media always comments if I wear the same thing twice.

Media Same Always Twice Wear Thing

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