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• I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Passion, Writing, Play

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• If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

  Gavin Schmidt

  Flawed, Models, Asks

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• I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, Hands, Best Job

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• I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

  Alan Parker

  Fascists, Aesthetic

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

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• Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit. His daily radio show is the one reliable place ordinary citizens can turn to for a different perspective in the blizzard of propaganda and disinformation from the Northeastern media establishment. History will show that Limbaugh was a major force over the past decade in waking this country up from its p.c. coma.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, Past, Media

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• Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Simple, Reality

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• Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

  Tony Blair

  Wmd, Should Have, Forgiving

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• Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.

  Brian Williams

  School, Ideas, Presidential

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• What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man husband? The lack of a powerful father or spouse who could jump-start her 'feminist' career with money, contacts, and influence? That Idaho BA? The wink? The charisma and, indeed, sensuality so lacking in her angry critics?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Powerful, Husband, Father

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• You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?

  John Powell

  Beautiful, Attitude, Heart

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• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Thinking, Air

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5

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• My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

  Alan Ryan

  Men, Ideas, Roots

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• Well, it's great that critics are comparing
  me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

  Uncle Kracker

  Ice, Vanilla, Compare

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• I like critics with strong opinions.

  Chuck Eddy

  Strong, Strong Opinions, Opinion

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• When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.

  Steve Ells

  Simple, Ideas, Cooking

  "How Chipotle Became The Gold Standard Of Mexican Fast-Food" by Kal Gullapalli, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

  Judd Apatow

  Film Critics, People, Magazines

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

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• It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

  Judith Crist

  Voice, Criticism, Essentials

  "Judith Crist: The Lady Has No Respect" by William Rice in The Tuscaloosa News (p. 10), November 23, 1968.

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• If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

  C. S. Lewis

  Rivals, Fit, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

  Jose Narosky

  Unjust Criticism, Accepting, Applause

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• If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Special, Train

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving, Artist, Criticism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.390, University of Chicago Press

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