Critics Quotes - Page 21

• I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Thinking, Government, Answers

  Source: www.slate.com

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• [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Opportunity, Hands, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema, which is a great space but isn't necessarily the most well attended for a week-long screening.

  Robert Greene

  Running, New York, Space

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Running, Thinking, White

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.

  Paul Kagame

  Names, Long, People

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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• And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Mean, Writing, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Iran, America, People

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.

  Daniel Clowes

  Film Critics, People, Way

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Years, Long

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

  William Golding

  Writing, People, Mind

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"

  Annie Lennox

  Shoes, Matter, Sometimes

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.

  Tricia Helfer

  Forget, Here And Now, Enjoy

  "ORIGIN Series: Battlestar Galactica, Razor, and Suits Actor Tricia Helfer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

  Saul Williams

  Daughter, Song, Philosophy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.

  Hope Solo

  Selfish, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

  Aaron Bruno

  Want, Honest, Worst

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• You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.

  Amanda Palmer

  Tears, Knows, Angry

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

  Gene Kelly

  Interesting, Want, Phenomenon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Smart, Helpful, Let Me Go

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  Adam Richman

  New York, Men, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.

  Lena Dunham

  Mother, Writing, Editing

  "Venice: Lena Dunham and Laurie Simmons Hope 'My Art' Influences a Generation". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 3, 2016.

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• Having said that, people here [in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] watch the TV. And they hear critics of her policies talk about how more than a million people coming here last year from various war-torn countries and also seeking economic help are going to, like, destroy the fabric of the society.

  Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

  Country, War, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When Donald Trump had all of his opponents, when he had critics in his party saying what you`re calling for in terms of deportation of all 11 million is not practical, it`s not plausible, some were saying it is not moral, why wouldn`t he make argument then?

  Steve Kornacki

  Party, Calling, Opponents

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Praise

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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