Criticism Quotes - Page 33

• I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

  Jane Campion

  Growing Up, Men, Thinking

  "Cannes 2012: Why have no female film directors been nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes?" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Drama, Narrative, Etc

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• I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.

  Kirk Gibson

  People, Worry, Personality

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• One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

  Robert M. Gates

  Littles, My Favorite

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• Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Challenges, Germany, Debate

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• Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

  Shirley Henderson

  Rejection, Brave, Fool

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

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• Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

  Steven Johnson

  Analysis, Culture, Way

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.9, Penguin

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• You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Trying, Radio

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

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• My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

  Katherine Jenkins

  Dream, America, Singers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  Hari Kunzru

  Wish, Lectures, Hungary

  "The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown". www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Done, Merit

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  Daniel Dae Kim

  Taken, Journey, Thinking

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• Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Media, People, Position

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• When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

  Scott McCloud

  Heart, Feedback, Reader

  "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired News Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.

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• When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Stupidity, Marketing

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• Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

  Guy Oseary

  Country, Hard Times, Giving

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• I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

  Sharad Pawar

  Thinking, Good Work, Should

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• The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

  Burt Rutan

  Flying, Interest, Loses

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• What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Games, President

  "Rand Paul: Obama's criticism of BP ‘un-American'". www.chron.com. May 21, 2010.

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• I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

  Maurice Strong

  Source

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

  Mo Yan

  Dark, Expression, Use

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• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Determination

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• The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Devil, Critics

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Moving, World

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• One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, People, Rejection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.131, Criss Jami

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