Critics Quotes - Page 35

• Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.

  Ryan Adams

  Hurt, Inspiration, Rocks

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

  David Shuster

  Fox News, Foxes, Doe

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• If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Practice, Two, One Day

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

  Criss Jami

  Running, Criticism, Devil

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

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• That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

  Glen Mazzara

  Holy Grail, Fans, Stories

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• I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

  James McBride

  Color, Trying, Wish

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• When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Blood, Shooting, Realizing

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

  Garry Winogrand

  Mean, Intelligent, Attention

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• When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.

  Veronica Roth

  Book, Want, Stuff

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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, Criticism, Newspapers

  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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• In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

  James Keller

  Work, Heart, Garden

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• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Political, Apes

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• I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Fiction, Whole

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• Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game. I'm proud of what we created; it's innovative, responsive & fun.

  Tony Hawk

  Fun, Playing Games, Mind

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2009

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• When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

  Joel Siegel

  Brilliant, Excellent, Performances

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• Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Mind, Criticism

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.22, MIT Press

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• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Work

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2369, Delphi Classics

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• Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

  Lance Morrow

  Hero, Ukraine, Eggs

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• No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

  Trey Parker

  Funny, Writing, Order

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Criticism, Kind, Guidance

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• Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

  Robert Redford

  Effort, Challenges, Criticism

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• People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

  Bob Dylan

  People, Criticism, Doe

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• The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

  Venus Williams

  Mean, Criticism, Naysayers

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