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Michael Dirda Quotes

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Information Insight Company Pleasure

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

Passion Child Listening Dream Born

Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.

Robert Greenwald

Good War People You Credibility Us

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Great War View Never Military Again

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

Freedom War Effort World America

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Love Theatre Doing Done Broadway

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Path Born Lucky Been Predictable

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

Work Job Happy You Chicago Improv

I think I'm a mousepad. I don't want to be a mousepad, but I'm a mousepad. I'm also a screen saver, thank you very much. It's weird.

Think Thank You Weird You Want Much

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

Mother Artist Always Wanting About

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Young Orchestra Anything Wanted

Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.

Training Hosting Supporting Arafat

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Enough Hollywood Never Drum Big

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