Martin Filler Quotes

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

John Fuller

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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Jennifer Armintrout

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I've worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think because we're so entertaining and oftentimes have such wild and well-defined characters that it's all we are. It has kind of been my life's work to tell the public that's not true.

John Cena

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Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

John Cleese

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No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.

Andrew Haigh

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Celebrate life in all its glory - challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.

Maximillian Degenerez

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

John le Carre

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Devaluations are never easy.

Jeffrey Sachs

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Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

Michael Hutchence

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I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.

Romeo Santos

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The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Mary Cheney

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Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

Jay Rockefeller

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