Allison Mackie Quotes
There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
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Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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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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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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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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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
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The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
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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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Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
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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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You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
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I was never a critic.
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American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.
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Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.
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There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
