Critics Quotes - Page 20

• Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about various aspects of Aschenbach's life and work. But many of them don't appreciate the second level of irony, the one exemplified in setting this narrative voice alongside the more sympathetic one, and inviting us to choose.

  Philip Kitcher

  Narrative Voice, Appreciate, Giving

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays.

  Philip Kitcher

  Play, Riches, Irony

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each other that that is somehow isolating. But humans are fundamentally social. So I think in reality, if a technology doesn't actually help us socially understand each other better, it isn't going to catch on and succeed.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

  Alexander Chee

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.

  David Edelstein

  Stars, Water, Trying

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's lots of room to be your own worse critic. It's just you, so I think that's inherit, that voice that's always that's there monitoring everything you do. It's definitely worse; the critic is harder when it's just you. If you're doing a show, then the critic can blame the other actors your with.

  Jason Graae

  Thinking, Voice, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them.

  Erica Schroeder

  Strength, Feelings, Singing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

  Deborah Smith

  Elderly, Violence, Firsts

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.

  Bob Frank

  Simple, Two, Invisible Hand

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.

  Charles R. Morris

  School, Mba Programs, Effectiveness

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King.

  David Edelstein

  Kings, Numbers, Superhero

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". Vulture Interview, www.vulture.com. February 2, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

  Justin Vernon

  Rocks, People, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

  Craig Finn

  People, Fans, Firsts

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

  Louis Menand

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Feminism, Genius

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

  Cornel West

  White, Black, Doe

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

  Cornel West

  White, House, Courageous

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down I want to ensure they don't lie about him. I'm sure they don't demonize him, and too much of that is going on. So I don't want my critiques to be in any way confused with the right-wing critiques, even though I'll fight for the right wing to be wrong in that regard.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Confused, Fighting

  4 Copy quote

• I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.

  Cornel West

  School, Silence, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

  Gore Vidal

  Jobs, United States, Ridiculous

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Country, Uganda, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Song, New York, Play

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

  Robert Barry

  Artist, Thinking, Curator

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.

  Robert Barry

  Mean, Done, Worst

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

  4 Copy quote

  Show source