Martin Filler Quotes

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.

John Fleming

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The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

John Larroquette

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I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

John Pilger

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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

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I was the artsy one, and my husband took care of all our finances. It was the Latino way - the man is in charge of the money.

Rita Moreno

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They were looking for someone to play the neighbor of the Jeffersons. I thought it would be a nice trip to Los Angeles. When you get a call like that, you don't expect much to come of it.

Roxie Roker

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'Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.

Mary H.K. Choi

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Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can't punish business into doing the things you want.

Mitt Romney

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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

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What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Cheech Marin

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Always strive to be a better you for you and for other.

Clemantine Wamariya

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Buy local fruits and veggies at the grocery store. You will support local businesses and cut down on all the fuel that is used to truck produce around from state to state.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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