Reviews Quotes - Page 2

• We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.

  Carly Fiorina

  Needs, Development, Dignity

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

  Jami Attenberg

  Reading, Giving, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Book, Mouths, Recommendations

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• I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

  Jenny Agutter

  Believe, Reading, Thinking

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• [George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Issues, Biographies

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• And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

  Peter Carey

  Nice, Way, Courses

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• As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

  Christopher Moore

  Communication, Needs, Want

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• I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Writing, Boston

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• The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Political

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, People, Write Your Own

  "Programmers At Work". programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Wells, Reviewers

  "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

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• I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.

  Tom Ford

  Clothes, Sick, Stores

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• I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Writing, Want, Favour

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• I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

  Joy Behar

  Art, Book, Sunday

  "Joy Behar Discusses HLN Show: Wants Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sees Show As Sunday Times". Interview with Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  New York, Successful, Wicked

  "Norbert Leo Butz And The Root Of Evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

  James Blunt

  Winning, Trying, Hussein

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• I don't read reviews.

  Andrea Arnold

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• If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  New York, Church, Culture

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• If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

  David Lehman

  Writing, Soul, Hostile

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

  Anne Carson

  Space, Want, Opinion

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• Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Safety, Imagination

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

  Katherine Dunham

  Husband, Would Be, Sometimes

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• That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

  Chris Elliott

  Morning, Boys, Three

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• I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

  Jenna Fischer

  New Year, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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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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