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• When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, America, Roles

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• Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Enormous, Critical, Has Beens

  "Taking the pith", www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2001.

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• O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

  Richard Baxter

  Pain, Blessed, Sea

  Richard Baxter (1822). “The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven”, p.306

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• I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Selfish, Expectations, Sake

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• Would you like to assist me with my choice of underwear as well?” My sarcasm whistled right over his head. “I would be delighted. While I’d love to see you in a balconette bra, I’m afraid for this particular occasion I would have to go with a foam-lined seamless due to the tight fit of the garment across your breasts . . . Perhaps I could come over and review what you have available . . .

  Ilona Andrews

  Sarcasm, Choices, Foam

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• Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mean, Good Things, Dyslexic

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• There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Princess, Taken

  Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in America—less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair.

  Stephen Colbert

  Atheist, Hair, America

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• To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Art, Book, Records

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.185, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Issues, Celibacy

  "Pope Francis Talks Celibacy, Pedophilia In 2012 Interview". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

  James Franco

  Acting, Film, Tricky

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• My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

  Erica Jong

  Rave, Forgotten, Vicious

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Coats, Jackets

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• I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

  Werner Herzog

  Night, Insomnia, Sleepless Nights

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

  Joanne Harris

  Criticism, Way, Coping

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Dream, Writing, Kids

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.86, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

  Scott Hamilton

  Want, Turns, Entertainers

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• I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Mean, Tired

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• I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

  John Grisham

  Meaningful, Hate, Writing

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Hype, Awkward, Misery

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Book, Wine

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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