Reviews Quotes - Page 32

• Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

  Yogi Berra

  Movie, Actors, Television

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• Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

  Roelof Botha

  Powerful, Keys, Quality

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• As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

  Parul Sehgal

  Color, Critics, Indian

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• I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.

  Evan Goldberg

  People, Stuff, Sony

  "Evan Goldberg Exclusive Interview; Covers THE GREEN HORNET, SAUSAGE PARTY, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, and His Untitled Cancer Dramedy". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Art, Law

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• I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

  Charles Stross

  Half, Linux, Firsts

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• I'm not used to getting good reviews.

  Pauly Shore

  Used

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• As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

  James McBride

  New York, Book, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

  Hank Stuever

  Television, Tvs, Mediums

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2015.

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• I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them. Indeed, I have reason to suspect myself on this head; and each year, as the tax-gatherer comes round, I find myself disposed to review the acts and position of the general and State governments, and the spirit of the people, to discover a pretext for conformity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Hair, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.107, Bantam Classics

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

  Robert Ludlum

  Love You, People, Theatre

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• The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

  Sean Lennon

  Hurt, Levels, Serious

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Facts, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

  Guy Kawasaki

  The End Of The Day, Peers, Peer Review

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• It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, Criticism, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.

  Lily Allen

  Couple, Lying, Reading

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Film, Revenue, Theatrical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.

  Krishna Das

  Letting Go, Writing, Space

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Apr 13, 2017

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• God gets the easiest performance reviews.

  Daryl Gregory

  Performance Review, Performances

  Daryl Gregory (2014). “Afterparty”, p.17, Macmillan

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• One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end.

  Jim Shaw

  Brain, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Distance, Book, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

  Alan Lightman

  Men, Desert, Tents

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

  Frank Sinatra

  Numbers, People, Critics

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• Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Memories, Attitude

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.48, Harmony

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