Reviews Quotes - Page 33

• A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Diaries, Use

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.221

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• If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.

  Rands

  Pockets, Sitting, Minutes

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• If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

  Moby

  Nice, Writing, Records

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• Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Giving, Publicity

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• I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

  Louis L'Amour

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Writing

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.472, Random House

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• Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

  Freeman Dyson

  Paper, Impossible, Rejected

  Scientific American, Sept. 1958

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• Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Government, Effort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.

  Hillary Clinton

  Email, Want, Release

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Looks, Realizing, Guilty

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Home, Writing

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• It's great when you can bait and switch people - and I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that in truth. If we were advertising this movie as a very serious indictment about the hunt for war criminals, and it's a very dark drama, it would probably get great reviews, but people would stay away from it because no one wants to be lectured.

  Richard Shepard

  Drama, War, Mean

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Government, Safety

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• I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Believe, Negative, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

  Gaspar Noe

  Hateful, Sometimes, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it.

  Thao Nguyen

  Thinking, Trying, Matter

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• The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.

  Julius Evola

  Strong, Sex, Vanity

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• You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mind, Negative, Remember

  "Barbra Streisand Looks Back on 25 Years". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2005.

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• If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Might, Causes

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Book, Eye

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• If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

  Ned Rorem

  Creative, Might, Playing Music

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• If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"

  Romola Garai

  Writing, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

  Jonathan Gold

  Writing, Interest

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

  John Waters

  War, Film Critics, Squares

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

  Vannevar Bush

  Power, Past, Men

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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