Terry Teachout Quotes

I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingAmericanTelevisionLiving

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

Matthew Yglesias

ParkingAgainst

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

John Wooden

YourselfYouMeasureAbilityYour

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Steve Jobs

TechnologyBestTogetherWorldThink

If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself?

Sonakshi Sinha

WorkYourselfSomeoneEnjoyYouWhy

I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.

Sonny Bill Williams

MyselfManI AmThinkI CanMy Own

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Tom Petty

HealthPainStartYouDownAlways

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

Jon Ronson

PeopleBreakfastStopOverEatUp

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.

Douglas Rushkoff

TimeMoneyRealityYouLivingTry

I'm on Twitter, Facebook. There's a lot you can do with it, and it's great to keep in touch. I try to throw a few things out on Twitter every day.

Donovan Bailey

GreatDayYouEvery DayTouchTry

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Dorothy Stratten

MenManWillWayNeverJust

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

Daymond John

MoneyMistakesSmallPartnerYou

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

Chris Daughtry

OpportunitiesThinkNowTalkRight

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