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Whit Stillman Quotes

I don't like the word 'perfectionist,' because it's self-flattering. It's tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer 'particularist.'

Whit Stillman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1952

Topics

Perfection You Achieve Own Because

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.

Robert Pinsky

Good Art Challenge Smart Fun Poetry

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Robert Moog

Work Music Opportunity Training Me

The Dead's best venues were the outdoor concerts. I've been to a few, including one outside of Kansas City on the Fourth of July, but my fave was Shoreline Amphitheatre - a beautiful outdoor arena built on a landfill.

Ann Coulter

Beautiful Best City Dead Outside

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.

John Ridley

Style Me Know Never Out Facebook

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Troy Polamalu

Positive Myself Challenge Me Better

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

Marv Levy

Myself Me Anybody Else Does

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Plan House Wishes Play Important

In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestra in Lima, it's always struggling to survive. We shouldn't have just one orchestra, we should have 15, we should have 50! And you should start to build this from the children.

Juan Diego Florez

Children Theatre Survive Start You

In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency did not justify torture. The United States must be held to a higher standard than our enemies, yet some of our actions did not clear that bar.

Dianne Feinstein

Justice Urgency Responsible Bar Must

We want to generate jobs in the U.S.

Dennis Muilenburg

Want Jobs Generate

We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

Colin Salmon

Children School Chair Lost Skills

'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Kiss Me Kate Tony