Terry Teachout Quotes

The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be 'talky' has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfCulturePeopleAmericanBad

White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

Jess Row

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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

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I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

Toni Braxton

ArtistSelling

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

Tony Dorsett

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The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Mike Singletary

MeWinningCareImportantWantMost

God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Joyce Meyer

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Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

Christopher Guest

ChildDoingEnoughBornLondon

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

Colin Baker

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It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

Claudia Schiffer

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I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

Bonnie McKee

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I focus only on the work with my team-mates with Dortmund and Gabon.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

WorkFocusOnly

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Peter Max

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