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When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.
'Affable' is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou Dobbs for the first time.
As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.
You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.
In London, the food critics are harsher, the clients milder; in Hong Kong, the clients are harsher, the critics milder.
If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.
It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
I've heard it said that I'm silencing the critics so many times but it's not that: I don't have to prove myself to anyone.
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.
At one point, I asked myself whether I was having fun with the national team, or whether I was just out to convince critics.
Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches.
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
I hear all the critics, man. I hear them saying 'He's done.' I hear them saying 'He can't.' I hear all that. That keeps me going.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.