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“If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'”

“I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.”

Critics Aesthetic Fascists

Author:Alan Parker

“Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit. His daily radio show is the one reliable place ordinary citizens can turn to for a different perspective in the blizzard of propaganda and disinformation from the Northeastern media establishment. History will show that Limbaugh was a major force over the past decade in waking this country up from its p.c. coma.”

“Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.”

“Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.”

Ifs Should Together Faces Suffering Politics Given Should Have Responsible Forgiving Threat Critics Terrorism Destroyed Menace Inhuman Wmd Carnage

Author:Tony Blair

“Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.”

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Author:Brian Williams

“What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man husband? The lack of a powerful father or spouse who could jump-start her 'feminist' career with money, contacts, and influence? That Idaho BA? The wink? The charisma and, indeed, sensuality so lacking in her angry critics?”

“You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?”

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Author:John Powell

“Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.”

Thinking Littles Country Names Given Known Air Sea Land Critics Connected Newspapers Germany Prose Empires Providence Humorists

Book:Works

Source: Works

“My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.”

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Author:Joyce Tenneson

“Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.”

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Author:Alan Ryan

“Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.”

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Author:Uncle Kracker

“I like critics with strong opinions.”

Strong Opinion Critics Strong Opinions

Author:Chuck Eddy

“When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.”

“The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.”

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Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.”

Firsts Would Be Critics Filmmaker

Author:Francois Truffaut

“A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.”

Source: The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day

“I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.”

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Author:Judith Crist

“If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals”

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Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.”

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Author:Jose Narosky

“If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.”

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Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.”

Moving Artist Criticism Critics Developing Always Moving

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.”

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Author:John Updike

“You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.”

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Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

“Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.”

Ifs Criticism Critics Reports Description

Book:The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

“Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.”

Art Moral Art Is Mere Critics Appreciation

Author:Jean Cocteau

“An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.”

Art Pieces Particular Appreciate Critics Art Critic

Author:Robert Breault

“The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.”

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Author:Jack Hunter

“If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.”

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Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.”

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Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

Source: Karl Marx: A Reader

“Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.”

Home Critics

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.”

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Author:Ted Allen

“For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.”

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Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”

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Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.”

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Author:Kenneth Tynan

“A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.”

Feet Spring Criticism Critics

Author:Francois Mauriac

“The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.”

Men Action Opinion Critics Trials Indolence

Author:John Mason Brown

“The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.”

Kind Criticism Critics Admire All Kinds

Book:Mainly on the Air

Source: Mainly on the Air

“I'm too rich to care what the critics say.”

Care Rich Critics

Author:Mel Gibson

“I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.”

Long Praise Critics Boring Movie Critic

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.”

Thinking Writing Film Critics

Author:Federico Fellini

“Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.”

Ifs Heart Ability Opinion Impossible Critics

Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

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