Critics Quotes
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The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.
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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
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Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
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One day I'll make a film for the critics, when I have money to lose.
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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
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The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
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Critics are already made.
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During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.
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If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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I have more critics than Hitler.
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You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
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If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.
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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
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Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
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What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
