Martin Filler Quotes
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.
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My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.
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If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
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The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums.