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• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  Barry Manilow

  Break Up, Crazy, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past, Scene, Form

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.31, Library of America

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• Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

  Edmar Mednis

  Learning, Skills, Chess

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• I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

  Ginger Rogers

  Mom, Giving, Doe

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• Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

  Orlando Figes

  Nice, Military, War

  Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

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• A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Criticism, Execution, Critics

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

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• Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Thinking, Goal

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Memories, Grateful, Sea

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• One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

  Seth Godin

  Honor, Criticism, Ruins

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.47, Penguin

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• A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

  Kingsley Amis

  Lunch, Breakfast, May

  "Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement?". Book by Giles Gordon, 1993.

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• The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hurt, Perfection, Design

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 28, 2010

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• Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

  Michael Pollan

  Community, Groups, Individual

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• I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.

  Max Reger

  Writing, House, Sitting

  Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.

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• Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Writing

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1971). “A Certain Bridge: Isaac Bashevis Singer on Literature and Life”

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• The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Artist, Editors

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• A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Writing, Good Day

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• Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.

  Theresa May

  Home, Office, Police

  "Police may be given new powers after cuts protest, says home secretary". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I often don't read reviews.

  Ian Mcewan

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• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  Iris Murdoch

  Rain, Criticism, Important

  The Times, July 6, 1989.

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• When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Love, Believe, Worst

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• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Care, Want

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• Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

  Colin Powell

  Mirrors, Perspective, Car

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• A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Book, Writing, Critics

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Future, Mean

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Cracks, Needs, Tinkerbell

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