Zephyr Teachout Quotes

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Zephyr Teachout

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• It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • America
  • Iran
  • Strife

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • She
  • History

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Weakness
  • Confession

• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Present
  • Dark
  • Door

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Head

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Help

• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Creativity

• Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Music
  • Character
  • Idea

• There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Dare

• Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Unknown

• Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Creativity