Martin Filler Quotes
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.
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My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
