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• A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

  Tony Campolo

  Careers, Speakers

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• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  Eric Cantona

  Zero, People, Needs

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• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

  Truman Capote

  Careers, Gossip, Long

  Quoted in David Frost The Americans (1970),'When Does A Writer Become A Star'.

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• If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

  Mariah Carey

  Hygiene, Brain, Half

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• When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Flower, Judging

  "Is Cooking Ever an Art?" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

  Paul Cezanne

  Motivational, Art, Lying

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• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Perception, Criticism

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Criticism, Misconception

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

  Jean Cocteau

  Criticism, Criticize

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Who I Am

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• Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  People, Criticism, Talent

  Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton Lecture 1 (1811 - 1812)

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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Criticism

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Garden, Expression

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

  Mason Cooley

  Delight, Literature, Scolding

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• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

  Mason Cooley

  Believe, Literature, Lasts

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• I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Giving, Effort

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• Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Realising

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• The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

  Billy Corgan

  Pumpkin, Smashing, Fingers

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• I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

  Kevin Costner

  People, Cinema

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• If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Causes, Apes

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• Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

  Bryan Cranston

  Hopeful, Projects

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• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Challenging The Status Quo, Harsh, Challenging Status Quo

  "The (Real) Governator". Interview With Lisa Depaulo, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

  Park Chan-wook

  Couple, Successful, Film Critics

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. August 6, 2009.

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• A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

  Tyne Daly

  Inspirational, Battle, Shooting

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

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