Martin Filler Quotes
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.Martin Filler
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton -
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Ian Mckellen -
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice -
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel -
I want to be acting until the day I die!
Mackenzie Foy -
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
Katee Sackhoff
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
Warren Spector -
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Babasaheb -
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner -
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
B. D. Wong
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon -
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
Sam Shepard -
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose -
To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
Gary Jennings -
Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
Gavin Newsom
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
Jack Straw -
Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.
Zac Efron -
You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I know you told me you'd wait for me, but I don't want either of us to wait anymore. Especially when I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were special. I feel like I've been running my whole life, speeding from small town into a big city, jumping from one place to the next for years until they all blurred together. And right when I decided it was time to finally stop running and set down some roots, there you were. My new beginning." Her eyes filled with tears as she smiled up at him and slid her arms around his neck to pull him closer. "My love." Jack sank down onto the couch with Mary, her curves soft beneath his muscles. "I'll always be yours, Angel. Forever.
Bella Andre -
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
Martin Filler