Critics Quotes - Page 15

• There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Book, Differences, Enormous

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• Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Lunch, People

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• If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Writing, Ifs

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• No critic ever changed the world.

  Robin Sharma

  World, Changed

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2016

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• Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

  James Cook

  Generosity, Giving, Done

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• To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

  Robertson Davies

  Trying, Vienna, World

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.

  Simon de Pury

  Dream, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

  David Slade

  Directors, Want, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Winning, Thinking, Feelings

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• I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.

  Erich von Däniken

  Kissing, Differences, Community

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• Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Selfish, Human Nature, Humans

  FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Jul 07, 2011

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

  James Cook

  Donation, Capitalism

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• The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

  Andy Kaufman

  People, Age, Trying

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• With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Birth, Inevitable

  History of the World: Part I, www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

  Terry Teachout

  Art, Firsts, Wonder

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• As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Book, Knowing

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

  Natalie Massenet

  Long, Doers, Problem

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• Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cheating, Wall, Hate

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• I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

  Pete Sampras

  Thinking, Giving, Should

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• A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

  Tristan Bernard

  Making Love, Juan, Teach

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• If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

  Robert Morley

  Trouble, Should, Ifs

  Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1966). “Robert Morley: 'responsible gentleman'”

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• Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .

  Charles Tomlinson

  Country, Moving, Style

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• If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

  John Wayne

  Gone, Recognition, Judgment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

  James Young

  Crazy, Way, Worst

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