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Michael Dirda Quotes

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Work Famous Classic Most After Pan

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Inspirational Moment Frozen Fleeting

The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Life Opportunity Truth Myself Fool

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Mikhail Bakunin

God Best Boss Heaven Earth Exist

I always live tweet 'SNL.'

Live Always Tweet SNL

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

Myself Culture Me Connection Beliefs

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

Growth Think Interesting Drama Going

It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.

Passion Development Passionate Going

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Fear Father Men Man Brother Free

I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried.

Courtney A. Kemp

Experience Job Doing Complicated Old

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

William R. Alger

Mind Appreciate Genius Exercise Use

My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

Animal Brother People Hair Society

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

Together Team Financial Legal Months

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