Martin Filler Quotes
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
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Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.
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Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
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Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.