Ruth Gordon Quotes

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

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• I love having critics for breakfast.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Critics

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Feel
  • Cat
  • Retirement

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Free
  • Critics
  • Buy

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Some
  • Popularity

• 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.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Book
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Opinion
  • Songs
  • Records

• 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.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Ideas
  • Littles
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Family
  • Law
  • Kind

• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Critics
  • Harsh
  • Status Quo

• 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.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Want
  • Plans

• 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!

  

  Cory Booker
  • Wise
  • Humble
  • Enemies

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Success
  • Marketing

• I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Knows
  • Eternity

• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Different
  • Home
  • Words

• You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take.

  

  Ariana Reines
  • Medicine
  • Becoming
  • Innate

• Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Inspiration

• Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • You
  • Things
  • Choose

• I was christened the "British Bulldog" by friends and colleagues who said I not only looked like a bulldog but fought like one. I was more of a fighter than a boxer. The "Blackpool Rock" originated from the fact that previous to becoming a fighter I was employed in the Blackpool Rock Factory, rock being a form of what Americans call candy.

  

  Brian London
  • Colleagues
  • British Bulldog
  • Blackpool Rock Factory

• For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

  

  Lance Gross
  • You
  • Like
  • Person

• If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Critics
  • Plans
  • Becoming