Terry Teachout Quotes

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

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I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Joan Rivers

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I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.

Joan Rivers

GirlChildUniformUsedGirl Scouts

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

Robert Plant

EntertainmentBecauseBuiltWere

It requires a different holistic approach and a recognition that it's not simply a question of stepping into China's shoes. Our 'Make in India' has to be different from China's in the sense that we have to do a 'taal-mel' or 'jugalbandi' of our IT skills that exist and our evolving manufacturing skills and become intelligent manufacturers.

Anand Mahindra

ShoesBe DifferentRecognitionIndia

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

Amanda Lindhout

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You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

Amber Heard

WorkPeopleDoingEnoughYouKnow

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Sol Wachtler

FreePersonGoSeriousCrimeHarm

I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.

Trisha Yearwood

LiveLooking ForwardWaitForward

Why commit technological suicide by restricting the flow of talent into the United States?

Michio Kaku

TalentSuicideWhyFlowUnited

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

Christopher Dawson

NatureCultureMenManLanguage

I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.

Sebastian Maniscalco

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