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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The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.
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Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
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As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
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The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.
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I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.
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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.
