Criticism Quotes - Page 34

• I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Film, Reviews, Film Criticism

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• The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Long, People

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

  David Brock

  Media, Truth Is, Responsible

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• I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism I'm not scared of people disliking me.

  Ronda Rousey

  People, Giving, Shy

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• When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, America, Missing

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• Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.

  Jill Abramson

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

  Seth Godin

  People, Blame

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.46, Penguin

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• Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Men, Newspapers, Critics

  Richard Holt Hutton, Robert H. Tener, Malcolm Woodfield (1989). “A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton”, Bristol Classical Pr

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• In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Real, Book, Giving

  Richard Holt Hutton, Robert H. Tener, Malcolm Woodfield (1989). “A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton”, Bristol Classical Pr

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• If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

  Edward Klein

  Ready, Ifs

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• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Reluctant, Knows

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• Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

  Martin Parr

  Hypocrisy, Tourists, Photograph

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• Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  School, Ideas, Essentials

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• When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

  Jess Weixler

  Actors, Protect, Feels

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• I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

  Ogden Nash

  Long, People, Care

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

  Matt Cutts

  Google, Connoisseur, Bits

  "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. March 3, 2011.

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• It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Pieces, Way, Film

  "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?

  Jose Padilha

  Humanity, Firsts, Brilliant

  "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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• A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

  William Arthur Ward

  Encouragement, Kindness, Cups

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• Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Hunters

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• Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

  Lee Hammond

  Inspiring, Art, Joy

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• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Errors, Ego

  ActuSF Interview, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

  George MacDonald

  People, Soul, Hearing

  George MacDonald (1878). “The Marquis of Lossie”

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• Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

  Alice Walker

  Done, Painful, Done With Love

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• Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Thinking, Done

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