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• It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

  Michael Haneke

  Perspective, Laziness, Disease

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• I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Karma, Worry, Trying

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• If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Guitar, Practice

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• Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Abuse, Afternoon, Littles

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

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• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Writing, Water, Gossip

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Thinking, Plot

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. 15 November, 1999.

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• Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

  Peter Jennings

  War, Vietnam, Firsts

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• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Pet, Criticism

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 263, n. 3 (1754)

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• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  Adam Jones

  Thinking, Band, Perfectionist

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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• I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Thinking, Fans, Cruise

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• In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Business, Independent

  Newsweek, December 24, 1973.

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• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  John Keats

  Men, Criticism, Blame

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.225, e-artnow

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• I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

  Imran Khan

  Islamic, Pakistan, Agents

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• It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

  Ed Koch

  Fun

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• Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

  Milan Kundera

  Discovery, Criticism

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• Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Historical, Criticism, Gestures

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• TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

  Charles Kuralt

  Hate, Writing, Air

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• Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Should, Disagree

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• I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

  Neil LaBute

  Lying, Ideas, Deceit

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• I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

  Artie Lange

  Might, Darling, Has Beens

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• The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Drama, Mean, Suspense

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• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  Ang Lee

  Writing, Men, Views

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

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• These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Idols, People

  "John Lennon: The Last Interview". Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 2010.

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