Martin Filler Quotes
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Martin Filler
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Gareth Gates
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
Verite
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I'm quite good at not writing.
Ian Mcewan
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
Fabrice Grinda
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
Fisher Stevens
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
Damon Lindelof
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
Laura Benanti
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I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'
Lydia Leonard
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Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
Sara Bareilles
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I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
Daniela Bobadilla
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My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'
Jennifer Egan
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Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Martin Filler
