Reviews Quotes - Page 4

• I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

  John Podhoretz

  New York, Book, Self

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• Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Waste

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• If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Book, People

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• Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hot, Looks, Week

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• All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  Salman Rushdie

  Would Be, Khomeini, Bad Reviews

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• Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Book, Bisexual

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

  Sean William Scott

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• I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Thinking, Albums

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

  Patti Smith

  Intelligent, People, Being Positive

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

  Britney Spears

  Respect, People, Care

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

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• I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

  Steven Spielberg

  Careers

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• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  Barbra Streisand

  Angel, Heaven

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• I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.

  Elaine Stritch

  Liars

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Decision, Skins

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• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Play, Saws

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• All our words and actions pass in review before God.

  Ellen G. White

  Our Words, Passing, Passings

  "Review & Herald Articles, Book III of IV".

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• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

  Tennessee Williams

  Failure, Night, Typewriters

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• Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

  Fred Wilson

  Needs, Pace, Use

  "Continuous Feedback" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Change, Book, Too Late

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• I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Arguing

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• I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

  Romola Garai

  Book, Artist, Play

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