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• Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hot, Looks, Week

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• If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Book, People

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• Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Waste

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• I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

  John Podhoretz

  New York, Book, Self

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• I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction rather than making the blanket assumption that all commercial fiction is unworthy.

  Jodi Picoult

  New York, Men, Thinking

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert's review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger.

  Todd Phillips

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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

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• The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  New York, Book, Enjoy

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• Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Interesting, Sometimes, Term

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Independent, Numbers

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• I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

  Nicole Kidman

  Proud

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 15, 2016

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• Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

  Robert Duvall

  Reading, Army, Names

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• I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Terrible

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• I mean, I understand that Scrubs was my big break, but sooner or later you have to move on. I've already directed a movie, which received very good reviews, so it just seems much more important to me now. I feel that in order to better foster my creativity as an actor and director at this point, I need to be surrounded by other talented, artistic individuals, instead of just goofy comedians.

  Zach Braff

  Moving, Creativity, Mean

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• I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

  Kenneth P. Green

  House, Environmental, Benefits

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• No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.

  Bruce Schneier

  Confidence, Years, Offers

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• REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Truth, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Shoes, New Ventures

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• I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

  Judd Apatow

  Bombs, Making Money, Terrible

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.

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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Remember, Forget

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• I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

  Renny Harlin

  Paper, Able, Film

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to the zoning ordinance, the Council sees a comprehensive approach, the ORC wants to review the ordinances and simplify them. Pam's vision was counter to that.

  Norman Foster

  Thinking, Vision, Wish

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• The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

  John Conyers

  Party, Dubai, Tasks

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• We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

  Ismail Merchant

  Judgment, Made, Terrible

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• Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Book, Years

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