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• The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

  James Redfield

  Determination, Pain, Live Life

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• The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

  O. Henry

  Past, Men, Gloves

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Flawed, Mislead

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• I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

  Romola Garai

  Book, Artist, Play

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• Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Events, Would Be

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

  Patti Smith

  Intelligent, People, Being Positive

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Thinking, Albums

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• So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

  Emily Mortimer

  Attention, Misery, Enough

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

  Toni Morrison

  Pain, Book, Insulting

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• When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

  Moby

  Hate, Successful, Play

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• I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

  Moby

  Dark, Animal, Rights

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• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Intelligent, Careers

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Criticism, Worst, Ifs

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• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Two, Majority

  "Getting more from George RR Martin". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Harder, Critique

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Army, Challenges, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Reading, Minutes

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• I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

  Alan King

  Giving, Joy, Unhappy

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• We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

  Janet Napolitano

  Community, Risk, Delay

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• Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Court, Cases, Enjoy

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• I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

  Sean William Scott

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• The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  Salman Rushdie

  Would Be, Khomeini, Bad Reviews

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• All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Book, Thinking

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