Reviews Quotes - Page 22

• I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Writing, Character

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it.

  Carolina Herrera

  Strong, Style, Want

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

  Curtis Hanson

  Filmmaker, Journalist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.

  Curtis Hanson

  People, Scandal, Ridiculous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.

  Curtis Hanson

  Moving, Boys, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, Practice, Lists

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the greatness of the restaurant and the greatness of the chef, and then with great regret to say, "And yet, all is not as it should be in the kingdom," and I didn't want to do any of that.

  Pete Wells

  Regret, Greatness, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary process. I can't review here the strong and growing evidence to support this conclusion, but I have elsewhere. There are ample reasons why having a LOT would confer selectional advantage: the person so endowed could plan, interpret, reflect, etc., in ways denied to others.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Communication, Support

  Source: libcom.org

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• I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.

  Simon Sinek

  Book, Writing, Amazon

  Source: advisor.tv

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• I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

  Truman Capote

  Newspapers, Bad Reviews

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

  Jon Hamm

  Nice, Writing, People

  "‘Mad Men’ star Jon Hamm looks back: ‘It was a long, strange trip’". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• I'm not here to say what [Clintons] did wrong. I mean, there's going to be plenty of post-mortem review of what should have gone differently.

  Keith Ellison

  Mean, Should Have, Gone

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what mistakes may have been made.

  Keith Ellison

  Mistake, Campaigns, Gone

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.

  Keith Ellison

  Thinking, Data, Ideas

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• We [in Think Broader.] went through and looked at coverage in different industries and were able to point out to newsrooms that they had these hidden biases. We'd do a review and provide a report card, and provide our suggestion on how to avoid bias.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Suggestions, Different

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We were kind of never one of CBS favorites [with Threshold], even though we'd gotten really good reviews for the pilot. We were on at, what was it, 10 o'clock on a Friday night? That's kind of where you bury a show if you don't want it to last. But, wow, what a cast, huh? You could never get that cast together again.

  Brent Spiner

  Friday, Night, Together Again

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

  Hershel Shanks

  Editors, Hype, Numbers

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said I was so good in the role [Earl Mills] that I "even managed to overcome a terrible red wig." I wanted to write her and tell her about the agony I'd gone through with the perm, but I thought better of it.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, Writing, Agony

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Italian, Men

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.

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• Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Stars, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate work - lends substantial support to the conclusions; whether that is true is for others to judge.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Judging, Support

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Would Be, Peers, Sitting

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Boredom, Leaving

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Responsibility, Editors, Two

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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