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Michael Dirda Quotes

Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an important and much-admired British official.

Michael Dirda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

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Father Childhood Born Important His

In India, because of the huge investments materialising in industry and infrastructure projects, the demand for steel has grown much faster than anticipated.

Jitin Prasada

India Steel Industry Infrastructure

Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.

Jim Nabors

Face Strong Dancing Points

I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.

Joe Garcia

Foundation American Years Cuban

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

Soleil Moon Frye

Best Balance Happy Chaos Parent

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Steven Moffat

Me Research Write Like Happened

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

Sid Vicious

Me You Arrest

Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.

Mike Vogel

Life Music Moment Song My Life You

Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go; otherwise, a child would feed themselves with their feet without the correct guidance.

Monica Johnson

Women Responsibility Men Child Feet

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.

Josh Thomas

Sitcom Contrived Incredibly

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

Chris Squire

Flower Power Guitar Body Early Down

People believed what I said was what I believed.

Bob Ehrlich

People Said Believed

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Anthony Hopkins

Quality Mind Dream Peculiar Sometime