Reviews Quotes - Page 16

• People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.

  Michael Chabon

  People, Doe, Relief

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• Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

  Michael Chabon

  Deep Breath, Breaths

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• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick

  Honest, Trouble, Ifs

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• With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

  Peter Farrelly

  Film, Bunch, Stay With Me

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• Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

  Rachel Gibson

  Goal

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• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  Barry Hannah

  Men, Thoughtful, Afternoon

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• The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

  Anish Kapoor

  Critics, Stride, Ifs

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agency, Government, People

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• Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Opportunity, Support, Done

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• Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hurt, Book, Cat

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

  Martin McGuinness

  Military, Car, Facts

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• Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Running, Night, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Writing, Acting, Different

  "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.

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• President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!

  Russell Pearce

  Country, Uganda, Law

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• I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

  Moshe Safdie

  Taken, Cutting, Agency

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

  Terry Southern

  Believe, Firsts, United States

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• While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Opportunity, Want

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• What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

  Al Yankovic

  Artist, Austin, Kind

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

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• Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.

  Ryan Adams

  Hurt, Inspiration, Rocks

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Criticism, Film, Film Criticism

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• One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Selfish, Simplicity, Foundation

  "Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original Problem" by David Sloan Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2009.

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• The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.

  Lev Grossman

  Stars, Real, Ideas

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