Ruth Gordon Quotes
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I love having critics for breakfast.
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
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There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.
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I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
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Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
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Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
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There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
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In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
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Songwriting is such a sensitive energy. It's just a vibration of frequencies.
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
