Terry Teachout Quotes

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Jerry Stiller

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I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with 'Broad City' and Amy Schumer and 'Girls', the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.

Jessica St. Clair

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I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.

Jenn Lyon

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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Maya Angelou

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City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Robert Gottlieb

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I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

John Travolta

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I am very uncomfortable being romantic. I can be funny; I can be all over the place. I can be anything but romantic.

Amruta Khanvilkar

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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Stuart Woods

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A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.

Janet Yellen

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I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Chris Hadfield

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Most people don't realize that when we were producing 'Black Panther,' 'Quantum & Woody,' and 'Steel,' fairly few people were reading those titles. We were constantly threatened with cancellation.

Christopher Priest

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You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

Tim Kaine

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