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• Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

  Edward Albee

  Reflection, Attention, Pay

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• I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.

  Edward Albee

  Depressing, Writing, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

  Edward Albee

  Past, Boys, Talking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

  Edward Albee

  Confused, Ugly Things, Trying

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking, Play, Soul

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.48, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Responsibility, Thinking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Years, People

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• So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

  Jane Pratt

  Teenager, Sassy, Oxymoron

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• I was never a critic.

  Curtis Hanson

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.

  Catherine Wilson

  Animal, Night, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Stress, Team

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to me, "Shut up and enjoy your money," and I think, OK, I'll shut up and enjoy my money, but why does Stephen King get to enjoy his money and get reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Kings, New York, Book

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, May, Assumption

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• One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

  Robert Greene

  Way, Behave, Never Expect

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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• As I look back, I understand what [the record company] was getting at. They were trying to market a record and make it as commercially acceptable as possible. It hurt me and my credibility with critics.

  Michael Buble

  Hurt, Trying, Looks

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

  Steve Earle

  Genius, Use, Term

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Art, Thinking, Bob

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"

  M.I.A.

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.

  Dale Jamieson

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing, and that the principle should be applied to individual acts. Indeed, this version is often called "classical utilitarianism" and attributed to Bentham and sometimes even to Mill. Rather than a "classical" view it is a recent construction foisted on to the tradition.

  Dale Jamieson

  Views, Principles, Maximizing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ubiquity, World, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

  Caleb Shomo

  Stuff, Worried

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

  Joe Buck

  New York, Years, Tvs

  Source: thebiglead.com

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• Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping, Poor, Very Happy

  Source: mattersindia.com

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