Reviews Quotes - Page 29

• Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Writing, Fit

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.162

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Sleep, Warrior

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.293, H J Kramer

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• Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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

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• I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.

  Tina Fey

  Korea, Interviews, Worst

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's best jokes from the 2015 Golden Globes". www.independent.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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• These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

  Erik Erikson

  Responsibility, Caring, Years

  Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick (1994). “Vital Involvement in Old Age”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Justice, Judicial Review

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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• Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

  James Patterson

  Life, New York, School

  James Patterson (2008). “Sundays at Tiffany's”, p.300, Random House

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• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

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• In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

  Jon Porter

  Airports, Light, Needs

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• I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

  Jason Isaacs

  People, Soul, Trying

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

  David Mamet

  School, Heart, Player

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• I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Believe, People, Don't Believe

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• When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

  Liberace

  Way, Cry, Staff

  Liberace (1973). “Liberace: an autobiography”, Longman Canada

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• Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Simple, Feelings

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• But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.

  Paul Douglas

  War, Cancer, Dark

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• I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, People, Giving

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Believe, Book, Character

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• The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.

  Brendan Rodgers

  People, Quality, Opponents

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a lot of time discussing each take. Also, I use the process we call auto-assembly because I storyboard my entire film right at the beginning, even before pre-production ever begins, so my vision is already laid out on the storyboard for everybody to share. It enables the on-set assembly person, as we call them, to cut together each take into a sequence. This enables a director to review the take within the context of the sequence of the scene.

  Park Chan-wook

  Cutting, Korea, Vision

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

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• For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

  Alain Resnais

  Film, Reason, Reactions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Order, Goal, Focus

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• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  Brock Yates

  Swimming, Night, California

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• As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

  Byron White

  Exercise, Views, Judicial Power

  Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 at 222, 1973.

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