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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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• A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

  Tyne Daly

  Inspirational, Battle, Shooting

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

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• I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

  Artie Lange

  Might, Darling, Has Beens

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• The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Drama, Mean, Suspense

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• Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Time, Art, New York

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• The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Mind, Doe

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• Young people need models, not critics.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Youth Of Today, Nba

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

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• Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

  Donnie Yen

  Kissing, Wish, Festivals

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• In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Light, Law

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• To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Hate, Life Is

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  Nat King Cole

  Music, Ems, Records

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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• A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Men, Arrows

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• Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Small Numbers, Community

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• The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, Editors, Habit

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.117, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Editors, Skulls

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• Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Appreciation, Editors, Criticism

  "Selected Essays".

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• Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Editors, People, Too Much

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• The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Editors, Horror, Reviewers

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.90, Macmillan

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• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dirty, School, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Men, Editors

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.219, Courier Corporation

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• You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Book, Writing

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• Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Editors, And Love, Admirer

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• Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

  George Herbert

  Editors, Clothes, Noblemen

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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