Reviews Quotes - Page 23

• You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.

  George Michael

  Girl, Years, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wife, Jazz, Married

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

  George Michael

  America, People, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Years, Editors

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Mean, Eight

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the most distinctive writing style, even more than mine, than I've ever seen in this business.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• When we launched our [ Vogue] site around five years ago, I had already started this process on paper. We are now building an enormous portfolio of photos, we've uploaded two million photos and we have three people that review them.

  Franca Sozzani

  Years, Two, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

  Judy Blume

  New York, Knows, I Can

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Healthy, Demand

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base, and we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos... not to put those two things in the same light!

  Alan Palomo

  Light, Two, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.

  Chaz Bundick

  Thinking, Knowing, Appreciate

  "Toro Y Moi Talks New Album, Underneath the Pine". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 23, 2010.

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• The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe the good ones you got to believe the bad ones, it's been mostly good ones. The previewers seem to be very happy and excited about it. I know I am. There are plans to continue if it does well.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Believe, School, Doe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch and so we’re going to be doing a complete review of FDA operations. At bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter. That’s what Sasha eats for lunch. Probably three times a week...

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Lunch

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Columns

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview With Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Opinion, Can Do, You Can Do It

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Rebuttal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.

  Louis Menand

  Criticism, Literature, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

  Bill Murray

  Long, Faces, Potatoes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Want, Pay

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

  Bruce Pavitt

  School, Past, Thinking

  "Experiencing Nirvana". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2014.

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• I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

  Demi Moore

  Priorities, Important, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Organization, Giving, Claims

  Source: www.mott.org

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• I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

  Karen Allen

  People

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Kids, Men

  Source: www.sffworld.com

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• I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.

  Amanda Peet

  Control Myself, Because I Can, Heard

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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