Martin Filler Quotes
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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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.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.
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I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
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You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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Everything’s been sanitized now and cleaned up. First with these fucking Christians. You just start with them. You know. I’m so, you know. That’s just one, wait a minute now. Yeah, you know. Let’s not leave out these PC campus liberal assholes. I mean they’re just as fucking bad from a different direction.
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Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.
