Critics Quotes - Page 17

• When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."

  Vin Diesel

  Writing, World, Rooms

  "Vin Diesel Kicks Ass". Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. June 23, 2001.

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• I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Film, Cop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?

  Bob Saget

  Should Have, Years, Guy

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• To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

  Herbie Mann

  Jazz, Kenny

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• More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

  Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

  Special, Bait, Littles

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• I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

  Bellamy Young

  Degrees, Tape, Moments

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

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• Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.

  J. G. Ballard

  Photography, Children, Distance

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• It's not the critic who counts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Daring Greatly

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

  Marilyn Manson

  Stupid, Cutting, Thinking

  "Freak or unique?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

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• 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

  Jon Voight

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Thinking

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• But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

  Fred Hersch

  Thinking, Care, Don't Care

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• I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!

  John Rzeznik

  Thinking, Ignorant, Clue

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• The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was at odds with some those who were Black nationalists. Yet when feminists attempted to end my career and leave me as literary road kill, it was the Black nationalists who came to my rescue.

  Ishmael Reed

  War, Odds, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Regret, Tough, Grotesque

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Character, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

  Immortal Technique

  Writing, Government, Law

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

  Chris Bosh

  Way, My Own

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie.

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Opportunity, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Thinking, Criticism, Musician

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• The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

  Joyce Maynard

  Book, Writing, Challenges

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• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Confidence, Honor, Attention

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• Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

  Wayne Dyer

  Real, Mistake, Waiting

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• In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?

  Cal Thomas

  Country, America, People

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• Women critics are amazons in climax.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Climax

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• Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

  John Huston

  Able, Film, Theme

  John Huston, Robert Emmet Long (2001). “John Huston: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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