Martin Filler Quotes

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

Jill Abramson

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I never pretended to be a great actor.

Joel McCrea

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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.

Jenna Wortham

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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

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I find inspiration on the street a lot.

Jeanne Damas

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I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Michael Eisner

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I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

Roger Ailes

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Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

Rose Leslie

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Anne Enright

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I love dressing for the winter - especially in baggy chunky cardigans.

Pixie Lott

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I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre.

Syd

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