Terry Teachout Quotes

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGreatAmericanEnjoyKnowDebt

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

John C. Reilly

RideCreatingSummerDramaHuman

Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

Ander Crenshaw

HomeNationAirOperationsEast

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Meryl Streep

MotherChildrenImaginationMeWould

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

Trevor Paglen

PeopleSocietyThinkBadUnderstand

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

Ron Ben-Israel

BirthdayMomentCakeYouBarBig

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

Michael Kinsley

DecisionTableSupreme CourtOff

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

Luke Perry

GoingLikeKnewWesterns

If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.

Jordi Molla

GoodJobPeopleSomeoneRemember

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

Chris Klein

ThoughtProcessHollywoodSitGet

When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

Chuck Brown

FamilyMusicShoesManPlayYoung

You've got to be able to let things roll off your back, and you've got to have some patience.

Brooks Koepka

PatienceYouBackThingsRollOff

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

Arne Duncan

ImportantNothingMoreSupportive

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