Reviews Quotes - Page 15

• I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.

  Tom Ford

  Clothes, Sick, Stores

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• Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Safety, Imagination

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

  David Lehman

  Writing, Soul, Hostile

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  New York, Church, Culture

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• I don't read reviews.

  Andrea Arnold

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• As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

  Christopher Moore

  Communication, Needs, Want

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• I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Writing, Want, Favour

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• I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

  Joy Behar

  Art, Book, Sunday

  "Joy Behar Discusses HLN Show: Wants Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sees Show As Sunday Times". Interview with Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  New York, Successful, Wicked

  "Norbert Leo Butz And The Root Of Evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

  James Blunt

  Winning, Trying, Hussein

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• I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

  Anne Carson

  Space, Want, Opinion

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• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Book, Mouths, Recommendations

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• I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

  Jenny Agutter

  Believe, Reading, Thinking

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• And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

  Peter Carey

  Nice, Way, Courses

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• I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Writing, Boston

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• Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

  Katherine Dunham

  Husband, Would Be, Sometimes

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• That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

  Chris Elliott

  Morning, Boys, Three

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• I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

  Jenna Fischer

  New Year, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Thinking

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Love You, Men, Enjoyable

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• As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

  Frank Vincent

  Thinking, Cities, Progress

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• I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

  Will Friedle

  Boys, Thinking, World

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• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  Patricia Arquette

  Bunch

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

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• I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

  Wes Anderson

  Levels, Different, Good And Bad

  "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.

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• There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

  Jane Campion

  Dream, Thinking, Artist

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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