Martin Filler Quotes
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
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In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.
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I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
