Martin Filler Quotes

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

Jock Sturges

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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.

Jeff Giles

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I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

Steven Soderbergh

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I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal.

Troy Carter

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You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

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It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

Roberto Civita

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Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad are two sides of the same terror coin. Letting Assad continue to wield lethal power means that Tehran's terror network - from Hezbollah to the Houthis - will persist in threatening the West.

Mike Pompeo

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I've been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I've been content there.

Julia Michaels

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I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

Jason Aaron

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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Douglas Coupland

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The point in me playing with Prince was to let a lot of people know that I can play trap. I don't think people know that.

Sheila E.

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People know that I'm very outspoken. I've learned that when I talk, it usually comes off very aggressive. It's not that I'm aggressive - I'm very stern.

Remy Ma

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