Reviews Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

  Chris Hardwick

  Comment

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Mind, Important, Film

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• I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Prejudice

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• The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

  Tim Dorsey

  Book, Writing, Two

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• Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

  Martha Grimes

  House, Directors, Roles

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• As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

  Lee Roberson

  Prayer, Should, Praying To God

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• Would you like to assist me with my choice of underwear as well?” My sarcasm whistled right over his head. “I would be delighted. While I’d love to see you in a balconette bra, I’m afraid for this particular occasion I would have to go with a foam-lined seamless due to the tight fit of the garment across your breasts . . . Perhaps I could come over and review what you have available . . .

  Ilona Andrews

  Sarcasm, Choices, Foam

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• The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

  David Pogue

  Educational, Marketing, Mountain

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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

  J. K. Rowling

  Success, Children, Book

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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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• The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

  James Redfield

  Determination, Pain, Live Life

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• The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

  O. Henry

  Past, Men, Gloves

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Flawed, Mislead

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• Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Events, Would Be

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

  W. H. Auden

  Book, Writing, Character

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• As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every moment of my life, including my emotions, attitudes, and motivations. The depth of emotion I experienced during this life review was astonishing. Not only could I feel the way both I and the other person had felt when an incident took place, I could also feel the feelings of the next person they reacted to. I was in a chain reaction of emotion, one that showed how deeply we affect one another.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Suicide, Motivation, Attitude

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• It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.

  Kenny Loggins

  Jumping, Enough, Hard

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

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• If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Criticism, Worst, Ifs

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Dream, Writing, Kids

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.86, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Enormous, Critical, Has Beens

  "Taking the pith", www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2001.

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• O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

  Richard Baxter

  Pain, Blessed, Sea

  Richard Baxter (1822). “The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven”, p.306

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