Critics Quotes - Page 21

• I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them.

  Erica Schroeder

  Strength, Feelings, Singing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

  Deborah Smith

  Elderly, Violence, Firsts

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.

  Charles R. Morris

  School, Mba Programs, Effectiveness

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King.

  David Edelstein

  Kings, Numbers, Superhero

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". Vulture Interview, www.vulture.com. February 2, 2012.

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• The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

  Craig Finn

  People, Fans, Firsts

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

  Louis Menand

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

  Cornel West

  White, House, Courageous

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down I want to ensure they don't lie about him. I'm sure they don't demonize him, and too much of that is going on. So I don't want my critiques to be in any way confused with the right-wing critiques, even though I'll fight for the right wing to be wrong in that regard.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Confused, Fighting

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• If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

  Gore Vidal

  Jobs, United States, Ridiculous

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Country, Uganda, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Thinking, Government, Answers

  Source: www.slate.com

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• [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Opportunity, Hands, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Running, Thinking, White

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Iran, America, People

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.

  Daniel Clowes

  Film Critics, People, Way

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

  William Golding

  Writing, People, Mind

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.

  Hope Solo

  Selfish, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

  Aaron Bruno

  Want, Honest, Worst

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• I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

  Gene Kelly

  Interesting, Want, Phenomenon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Smart, Helpful, Let Me Go

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.

  Lena Dunham

  Mother, Writing, Editing

  "Venice: Lena Dunham and Laurie Simmons Hope 'My Art' Influences a Generation". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 3, 2016.

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• Having said that, people here [in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] watch the TV. And they hear critics of her policies talk about how more than a million people coming here last year from various war-torn countries and also seeking economic help are going to, like, destroy the fabric of the society.

  Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

  Country, War, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Praise

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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