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• I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.

  Claire Danes

  Nice, People, Appreciate

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• Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fighting, Philosopher, Arguing

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

  Les Dawson

  Long, Mind, Self Improvement

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

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• You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

  Vin Diesel

  Running, Home, People

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• We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

  Walt Disney

  Determination, Criticism, Trying

  "Disneyland, 1955: Just Take the Santa Ana Freeway to the American Dream". American Art, 1991.

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• I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

  Kirk Douglas

  Boss, Needs, Actors

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• Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sad, Men, Ideas

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

  Roger Ebert

  Wise, Heart, Cynical

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.133, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Way, Reviews

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

  Roger Ebert

  Fans, Details, Analysis

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• I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Cities, Awards

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• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  Epictetus

  Love, True Friend, Lying

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• Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Criticism, Pedants

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• My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sex, Character, Play

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• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Generations, Literature

  Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920

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• It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

  Errol Flynn

  Funny, Leadership, Wisdom

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

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• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

  Anatole France

  Art, Adventure, Soul

  La Vie litt‚raire (The Literary Life, 1888) dedicatory letter

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• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Printed Books, Printed Word, Offending

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mind, Criticism, Recluse

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Edward Gibbon

  Learning, Judging, Criticism

  Edward Gibbon (1969). “Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard”

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• I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

  Mel Gibson

  Thinking, Audience, Proven

  "Mel Gibson Tells Some Brutal Truths About The Amazing 'Apocalypto'". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.mtv.com. December 14, 2006.

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• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Couple, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

  Zane Grey

  Sincerity, Burned

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• I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

  John Grisham

  Meaningful, Hate, Writing

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• I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Knuckles, Internet

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