Reviews Quotes - Page 14

• In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

  Roger Ebert

  Objective Truth, Reactions, Should

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published. When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer himself it will be only half-understood; to everybody else it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Science, Discovery

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• I don't usually read reviews.

  Steve Earle

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• The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

  Tim Dorsey

  Book, Writing, Two

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• I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Change, Book, Too Late

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• Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

  Fred Wilson

  Needs, Pace, Use

  "Continuous Feedback" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

  Tennessee Williams

  Failure, Night, Typewriters

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• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• All our words and actions pass in review before God.

  Ellen G. White

  Our Words, Passing, Passings

  "Review & Herald Articles, Book III of IV".

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• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Play, Saws

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Decision, Skins

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.

  Elaine Stritch

  Liars

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• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  Barbra Streisand

  Angel, Heaven

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• I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

  Steven Spielberg

  Careers

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• I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

  Britney Spears

  Respect, People, Care

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

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• I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Arguing

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• Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

  W. H. Auden

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

  Martha Grimes

  House, Directors, Roles

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• I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Prejudice

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• Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Mind, Important, Film

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• We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Believe, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (1968). “Reflections at Walden: Selected Writings”

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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

  Chris Hardwick

  Comment

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Book, Bisexual

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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