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- Nov 07, 2020
Critics Quotes
On praise, doubt, and living with criticism.
This collection of critics quotes balances real appreciation against wry doubt, from a short-lived show that critics genuinely liked to a pointed observation that critics rarely make good friends. It connects to our Audience collection.
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- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!
- Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Critics matter to me.
- Nationalist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!
- Repeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is certainly very thrilling to be given so much love and appreciation from the audience and critics.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the bill are vital to reduce future abuses of libel law.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critics don't bother me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020