Martin Filler Quotes

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 17, 1948

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No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

Jerry Della Femina

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Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.

Jennifer Todd

ParentsGotOurDivorced

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Melina Mercouri

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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

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My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

Alyson Stoner

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There's nothing more instructive than the immediate response of an audience.

Roger Bart

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I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

Jason Silva

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I want greatness.

Demi Moore

GreatnessWant

If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.

Del Shores

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Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

Chris Lilley

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I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

Anne Hathaway

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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Arthur Smith

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