Kenneth Tynan Quotes
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!
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The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.
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It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
