Reviews Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

  Irvin Kershner

  Matter, Sometimes, Film

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• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

  Faith Prince

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• Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Reality, Judging

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• I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.

  John Key

  Sex, Fruit, Firsts

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• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Trying, Looks, Internet

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• The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

  John Katzman

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'" by Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

  Stu Jackson

  Basketball, Numbers, Slippery Slope

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• Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception.

  Julie Roginsky

  Thinking, Cities, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Looks, Disease

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Woe

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• The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Years, Criticism

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• So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.

  John Irving

  Real, Book, Writing

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• There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Tragedy, Pessimism

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, House, Criticism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.

  Robert Mitchum

  Sleep, Eye, Noses

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

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• It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Hands, Pigs

  "Lena Dunham's Glamour April Issue Cover-Shoot" by Jonathan Bernstein, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2017.

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• Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

  Bill Gates

  Order, People, Track

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Office, Special

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• Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'

  Elliott Gould

  Light, Acting, Bed

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. April 23, 2009.

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• I'm involved with every single thing that they do as far as just being aware, and then they ask my opinion. I'm involved in the sequence reviews and some of the animation reviews and character designs and things like that. I give my input on that movie as well.

  Klay Hall

  Character, Giving, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

  Heidi Julavits

  Sometimes, Bad Reviews

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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