Reviews Quotes - Page 18

• As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

  Cory Booker

  Community, Movement, Progressive

  "A Great American Tradition: Community Organizing" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2008.

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• I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.

  Evan Goldberg

  Sick, Joy, Bad Reviews

  Source: collider.com

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• Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

  John Malkovich

  Destructive

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• We have just had the most amazing time. Every now and then, we'll come across a review where the person didn't like it and we're like, "What? Really? How could you not like it?" All of us like it so much, and we have such a great time at work. We've just been really blessed, and we're all standing here going, "Wait a minute, how did this happen?" It's been awesome.

  Angie Harmon

  Blessed, Waiting, Most Amazing

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

  Charles Baxter

  Book, Trying, Firsts

  "Off the Page: Charles Baxter". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 16, 2003.

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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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• The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

  John Scott

  Fate, Bookshops, Critical

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• Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Government, Political, Sometimes

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• Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Criticism, Males

  "Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of 'The Melting Season'". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Negative, Easier

  "Will Arnett & Mitch Hurwitz ('Arrested Development')". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, People, Lazy

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• The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

  Rick Moody

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned.

  Lewis Black

  Space, Years, Long

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• I live in the house bad reviews built.

  Paul Stanley

  House, Bad Reviews, Built

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• Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.

  Chris Mooney

  Falling In Love, Ideas, Peers

  "The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Mean, People, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Awards, People, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.

  Rebecca Eaton

  Waiting, Satisfaction, Mystery

  Source: collider.com

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• If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.

  Thomas Sowell

  Writing, Simple, Decision

  "Knowledge and Decisions". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1980.

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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Hands, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  Gail Sheehy

  Girlfriend, Children, Facts

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• When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.

  Dani Shapiro

  Waiting, Feelings, Relief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

  Jack Canfield

  Sleep, Successful, Next Day

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