Critics Quotes - Page 28

• John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Sorry, Dinner, John Wilkes Booth

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• To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

  Herbie Mann

  Jazz, Kenny

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• I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

  Russell Peters

  Harsh, Djs

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• Women critics are amazons in climax.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Climax

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• Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

  Dave Evans

  Play, People, Fronts

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• Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie.

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Opportunity, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!

  John Rzeznik

  Thinking, Ignorant, Clue

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• Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

  John Huston

  Able, Film, Theme

  John Huston, Robert Emmet Long (2001). “John Huston: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Confidence, Honor, Attention

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• But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

  Fred Hersch

  Thinking, Care, Don't Care

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• Sociological critics are waste makers.

  Andy Warhol

  Waste, Makers, Sociological

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• Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Character, World

  Fred Thompson's Remarks on John McCain's character, www.npr.org. September 2, 2008.

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• Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Play, Trying, Half

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

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• The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

  Joyce Maynard

  Book, Writing, Challenges

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• Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Taken, Blessing, Giving

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

  James Cook

  Donation, Capitalism

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• Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cheating, Wall, Hate

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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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• Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

  Kenneth Tynan

  Men, Print, Western

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• If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Broke, Grows

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• Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

  Toni Morrison

  Fun, Block, Reading

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• Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

  David Lee Roth

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• My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Thinking, Criticism, Musician

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• One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

  Henry Rollins

  World, Noise, Festivals

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• Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

  Frank Sinatra

  Negativity, Down And, Prove

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