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• If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Ifs, I Hate You

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• Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

  Frederic Chopin

  Teacher, Time

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• Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Mma, Battle

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• The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

  Max Beerbohm

  Criticism, Kind, Admire

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

  Charlie Day

  Hurt, People, Seeing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

  Pattie Mallette

  World, Vulnerable, Whole

  "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Fashion, Thinking

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• [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

  T. S. Eliot

  Land, Honor, Criticism

  Quoted in The Waste Land, ed. Valerie Eliot (1971)

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• In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Teacher, Art, Needs

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• I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this.

  Mario Cuomo

  Country, Strong, Military

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• Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head.

  Allegra Goodman

  Book, Love You, Writing

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• Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Writing, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.389, Penguin

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• I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

  Terry McMillan

  White, Black, Judgment

  Spike Lee, Terry McMillan (1991). “Five for five: the films of Spike Lee”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Art, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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• I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

  Mark Twain

  Broken, Smoking, Months

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Certain, Young

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• I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

  James Polshek

  Boys, Littles, Way

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• One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Looks

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• Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Commitment, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

  Mason Cooley

  Wonder, Deconstruction, Reader

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• If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

  H. L. Mencken

  Literature, Allan Poe, Orderly

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• Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Literature, Judgment, Productions

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• The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

  Jamie Goode

  Wine, Conscious, Score

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• I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Letting Go, Mother, Art

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• In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Criticism, May, Poet

  "Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers, Dante", 1824.

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