Reviews Quotes - Page 23

• I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thinking, Facts, My Favorite

  "Read Playboy … for the Interviews". Interview with Alvin Toffler, www.slate.com. January 1964.

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• As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.

  Gene Siskel

  Fall, Thinking, Thumbs Down

  "Read Playboy … for the Interviews". Interview with David Sheff, www.slate.com. October 1995.

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Writing, Long, Novelists

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• The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along
  Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong.
  The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day
  Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray.
  So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream
  You've an army at hand; your command is supreme;
  And question yourself, as it goes on review--
  Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach

  Reading, Actors, I Can

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• I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

  Steven Weber

  Coward, Noel, Bitter

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

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• The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.

  George H. W. Bush

  Impact, Community, Together

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• It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

  Kenneth Koch

  Cheer, Seems

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• Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Nice, People, Guy

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

  Confucius

  Men, Teach, Qualified

  Analects ch. 2, v. 11 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.

  Mario Cuomo

  Law, Justice, Community

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• I can be. I do not normally try to be. In fact, there have been some reviews - which I've loved - that said I didn't
  try to sell my show on sex, that I sang my show. On the other hand, I know I'm cute. I can dance. I don't have a
  bad figure. I know exactly what I am. I'm certainly no great beauty. I know exactly how far I can go.

  Stevie Nicks

  Cute, Sex, Hands

  Playboy Interview, Vol. 29, No. 7, July 1982.

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• I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect? Yes. Is there risk? Yes, but we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.

  Chuck Hagel

  Life, Thinking, Risk

  "Lawmakers defend failed hostage rescue mission in Yemen" By Sara Fischer, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2014.

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• Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader's opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book - and a writer - with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online - that's my age showing!) and buy a book.

  Michael Scott

  Couple, Book, Leaving

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• We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, People, Waste

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Credit, Too Much

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work on something for months and really feel like the project is good and you're doing the best work you can, and then it just gets hammered by critics. It's such a bummer sometimes, because everything seems to build up to the release and a couple of bad reviews can make it seem like it was all a waste, which you know it wasn't.

  Jeff Cardoni

  Couple, Waste, Months

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• I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

  Ben Affleck

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Special, Acumen, Attention

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Moving, Doe, Wells

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.

  Brett Ratner

  Taken, Reading, Writing

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Next Day, Jumping, Years

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• I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Reading, Night

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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