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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Rope

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• All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Jobs, Thinking

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• In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing to understand the context of the passage....assuming a partial report is a false report...neglecting to interpret difficult passages in light of clear ones; basing a teaching on an obscure passage; forgetting that the Bible uses nontechnical, everyday language; failing to remember the Bible uses different literary devices.

  Norman Geisler

  Bible, Teaching, Light

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

  John Irving

  Book, Simple, House

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Passion, Artist, Creative

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

  T. D. Jakes

  Believe, Perspective, Prisoner

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2012

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• At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

  Francois Truffaut

  Would Be, Firsts, Filmmaker

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• I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

  Kid Rock

  Fans, Prove

  Twitter post from Jun 04, 2013

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• A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Attitude, Sixty Minutes, Sky

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

  Keith Jarrett

  My Own

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Giving Up, Writing, Editors

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• Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mind’s awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Past, Mind, Moments

  Jan Chozen Bays (2009). “Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• I’ve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. I’ve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken and then throwing the bones away. They have not survived, I have!

  Carlos Fuentes

  Breakfast

  Interview with Stephen Talbot, www.motherjones.com. November 1988.

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• If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Challenges, Delay

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• The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Attitude, Fire

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• I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

  Rose McGowan

  Morning, Sorry, Black

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• Women are the harshest critics of other women.

  Joy Bryant

  "Naked Celebrities Talk Body Image" by Rose Apodaca, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2010.

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• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  Adam McKay

  Special, Savages, Action

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• He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.

  Sergio Martinez

  Strong, Motivation, Heart

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• ...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Men, Car

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.100, Crown Archetype

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• This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Knives, Editors

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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• A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. Instead, disagreements are settled by other means which, in extreme cases, inevitably become violent. Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Fighting, Religion

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. May 1, 2005.

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• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Soul

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