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Martin Filler Quotes

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Style Quality Movement Modern Social

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny Wishes Way Beyond Order Own

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

John Darnielle

Time Me Cool World Trying You

Pilates is phenomenal.

Andre Ward

Pilates Phenomenal

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Anderson Cooper

Feel You More Outsider Things Like

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

Max von Sydow

Theatre You Television Country Movie

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

John Philip Sousa

American Judge Shadows Lights Over

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.

Sophie Hannah

Children Best Mind Ideas Swimming

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

Children Feel Help Important Become

I always wanted to go into acting.

Rupert Grint

Acting Go Always Wanted

The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto us as children... it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.

Rupi Kaur

Children Pain Healing People Trauma

I believe you have to get rid of toxicity in any company. Don't care how smart, how talented, how long they have been there. If someone is going to create a toxic environment, you have to make a change.

Mindy Grossman

Change Smart Believe Care Someone

It's been said that mistletoe extract enhances immune function, which increases the production of the immune cells. When administered as a form of therapy for cancer, the extracts are given by injection under the skin, into a vein or directly into a tumor.

Chris Kilham

Skin Said Therapy Cancer Production