Terry Teachout Quotes

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JobMovingPlacePlayPageDirector

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

Jim Woodring

HiddenHardSameEverythingThings

Some people collect coins. Some people collect rocks. Some people collect stamps. I colllect kids and hope I can do something for them.

Jesse White

HopePeopleI CanRocksSome People

I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

Jennifer Coolidge

WorkFindDoneKindAlwaysOut

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

Anna Paquin

MyselfI AmChoicesPlanningParty

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

Jeffrey Kluger

BusinessHopeQualityTalentLuck

Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.

Jeff Fortenberry

ChangeLookingDecisionsTaxNever

The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

Jeff Lindsay

JobRejectionGoTryFirstGet

'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.

Sonoya Mizuno

CrazyBlackRichThinkFeelWill

I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff.

Simon Fowler

EducationRoadHigher EducationBack

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

Mike White

VictoryExpectationsLetting GoGo

Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

Dee Rees

EyesPeopleRollStories

There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

Chris Pratt

ManNothingGrown ManGiantThan

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