Reviews Quotes - Page 14

• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  "It's just a big mess inside my head". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

  Jack Dorsey

  Technology, Interesting, Filters

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• Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Tunnels

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• Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Long, Awkward

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• I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

  Estelle

  Artist, Wonderful

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• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  Sara Zarr

  Artist, Hands, Rejection

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• Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

  Dennis Brown

  People, Albums, Looks

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• No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Criticism, Greater

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very few places that offers intelligence, integrity, and variety.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Integrity, Media, Boston

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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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• Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Cutting

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House

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• You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Hurt, Children

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• If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

  Susan Egan

  Risk, Enough, Ifs

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• American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Firsts, Appearance

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• I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Cutting

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

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• I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

  Pat Conroy

  Way, Bother, Audience

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• I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

  John Green

  Book, Used, Terrible

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Father, Law

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• I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

  Ken Burns

  New York, Reading, Jazz

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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Drawing, News, Magazines

  "Carlos Fuentes obituary" by Nick Caistor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Political

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• [George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Issues, Biographies

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• You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, People, Write Your Own

  "Programmers At Work". programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Wells, Reviewers

  "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

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