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• I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

  Pat Conroy

  Way, Bother, Audience

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• I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

  John Green

  Book, Used, Terrible

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Father, Law

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• I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  Sara Zarr

  Artist, Hands, Rejection

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• I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

  Estelle

  Artist, Wonderful

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• Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Long, Awkward

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• If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Thinking, Mirrors, Fans

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• The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

  Tom Clancy

  Kgb, People, Signatures

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• Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

  Ron Kind

  Government, Years, Democracy

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• GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Meals, Stories

  "Joe Bastianich reveals restaurants' dark secrets, talks lawsuit" by Vidya Rao and Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 1, 2012.

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• In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

  Tim Holden

  Protection, Chapters, Made

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• I try my hardest not to read reviews.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Trying, Hardest

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• One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, New York, Military

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• Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

  Holland Taylor

  Osmosis, Mind, Watches

  "Art Talk with Holland Taylor". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. March 5, 2012.

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Latin, Dictator

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• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  Paul Goldberger

  Drawing, Looks, Building

  "Apple's New Headquarters" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  "It's just a big mess inside my head". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

  Jack Dorsey

  Technology, Interesting, Filters

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• Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Tunnels

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• I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

  Ken Burns

  New York, Reading, Jazz

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• I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

  Irvin Kershner

  Matter, Sometimes, Film

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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  Gail Sheehy

  Girlfriend, Children, Facts

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• And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Mean, People, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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