Terry Teachout Quotes

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's not easy to cook for 20 people.

Shilpa Shinde

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I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be there. There's an old theater saying: 'If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage'... You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.

Jovan Adepo

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My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

Christopher Walken

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In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

Norman Wisdom

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I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

Norman Wisdom

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Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

Martin Gore

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I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

Kim Shaw

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There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?

Kevin Connolly

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I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

James Turrell

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Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

James Patterson

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I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

Henry Ian Cusick

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It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

Ginnifer Goodwin

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