Terry Teachout Quotes

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TrumpetUsFactShouldComposers

Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in your body, or you don't.

John Patrick Shanley

MusicYouBodyBurnYour BodyYour

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

John Lydon

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As I've gotten older, I've come to grips that the unexamined life is what works for most people. Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends, and live a good life. And for them that's great.

Steve Blank

LifeFamilyGoodLiveGodCommunity

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Tu Youyou

HistoryLongHumanBeenDisease

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.

Tom Stoppard

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Once you start having success, it's easy to forget the mentality that got you started as a kid.

Mikaela Shiffrin

SuccessStartEasyYouForgetKid

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Louise L. Hay

BelieveThinkThinkingChooseCreate

I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff.

Julia Holter

MusicYourselfPeopleIgnoreYou

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

Don King

LifeStruggleUps And DownsBetter

I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'

Colm Feore

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One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

Chuck Hogan

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There are plenty of models who have children.

Arizona Muse

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