"I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera."

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Terry Teachout

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“Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.”
“To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.”
“You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.”

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“If youâ€™ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesnâ€™t care. But when Newtonâ€™s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.”
“You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.”

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“The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.”

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“There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.”
“I don't want to make studio films if I am constantly fighting to assert some kind of leadership within the process. I'm not hired to be a really nice person who comes up with solutions to problems now and then. I'm hired to be the director.”

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