Critics Quotes
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I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
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In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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There are no statues erected to critics.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.
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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.
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I have a huge voice, so it's a bit more like a Janis Joplin vibe than a younger rock vibe. And I think that's what throws people because they don't know how to take me. Even critics - they don't know how to swallow me because they're like, 'Well, she came up like a total pop act',
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
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This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.
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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
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Although critics of capitalism claim regulations were being gutted during the Bush years, the number of Register pages exploded—as did the amount spent by federal regulatory agencies and the number of people employed by those agencies.
