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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.
If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.
What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about 'Tesco housewives' and 'the blue-rinse brigade.'
I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.
Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other's biggest champion and also their hardest critics.
When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.
I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
There is so much people hate about Kim Kardashian, it sometimes seems as though her critics get as much enjoyment out of her as her fans.
I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.
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.
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.
You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.
Critics will tell you the 'meet cute' is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche's work - because they ring true with the reader.
I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
Critics say that Fox News leans right, but the truth is, it's more centrist - it just looks right-wing in comparison to the other news outlets.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.