quotes about Reviews
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It's my policy not to review funerals.
-- A.M. HomesSource : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.54, Granta Books
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
-- Anish Kapoor -
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
-- Arnold BennettSource : "The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett - an extraordinary story of ordinary life" by Charlotte Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2016.
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The best kind of performance review is no performance review
-- Aubrey Daniels -
I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
-- Bob Woodward -
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I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
-- Bobby Farrelly -
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
-- Bruce Schneier -
Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.
-- Bruce Willis -
I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.
-- Chris Hardwick -
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
-- David LehmanSource : David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
-- Dustin HoffmanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.
-- E. T. A. HoffmannSource : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
-- Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
-- Edward Albee -
I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
-- Elaine Stritch -
I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
-- Eli Roth -
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I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
-- Estelle -
I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.
-- Faith Prince -
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
-- Ford Frick -
If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
-- Gareth Gates -
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
-- George Eliot -
Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.
-- Greta Gerwig -
By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.
-- Harold C. Schonberg -
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I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-- Irwin Shaw -
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
-- Ismail Merchant -
We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.
-- Ivan ReitmanSource : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.
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Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.
-- Jack Woodford -
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
-- James Franco -
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
-- James J. Hill -
If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
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On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.
-- Jeremy StoppelmanSource : "Yelp CEO talks mobile growth, global expansion... and doner kebabs". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2013.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
-- Jim Harrison -
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
-- Judd ApatowSource : Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.
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Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
-- Kenneth Koch -
It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.
-- Kenny Loggins -
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
-- Kevin Bacon -
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I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
-- Kim Cattrall -
As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.
-- Lee Roberson -
I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.
-- Lou Ferrigno -
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
-- Louis Aragon -
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For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley -
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.
-- Mark A. Cooper -
I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
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I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
-- Melanie Lynskey -
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
-- Michael Chabon -
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.
-- Nell FreudenbergerSource : "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.
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I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.
-- Oscar Levant -
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
-- Patricia Arquette -
And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.
-- Peter Carey -
With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!
-- Peter Farrelly -
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Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
-- Rachel Gibson -
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
-- Randa Abdel-Fattah -
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
-- Sarah Jessica Parker -
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When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
-- Scott Hamilton -
There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.
-- Seamus Mallon -
I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.
-- Sean William Scott -
To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.
-- Sheila NevinsSource : "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.
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I try my hardest not to read reviews.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
-- Terry Zwigoff -
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
-- Thomas Paine -
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I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.
-- Tibor FischerSource : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.
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Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
-- Tibor FischerSource : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.
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At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.
-- Tiger Woods -
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing? Not the worst review the movie got.
-- Tina Fey -
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
-- W. H. Auden -
I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.
-- Wes Anderson -
Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.
-- Will Friedle -
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A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.
-- Aurora GuerreroSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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God gets the easiest performance reviews.
-- Daryl GregorySource : Daryl Gregory (2014). “Afterparty”, p.17, Macmillan
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I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
-- Evan GoldbergSource : Source: collider.com
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The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.
-- Gaspar Noe -
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I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.
-- John O'Hara -
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.
-- Kate ZambrenoSource : Source: therumpus.net
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I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that.
-- Mary Elizabeth Ellis -
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
-- Parul Sehgal -
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I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it.
-- Rob Cohen -
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.
-- Simon Taylor-Davis -
If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks
-- Susan Egan -
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It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
-- Roger Maris -
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
-- John Scott -
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.
-- Jonathan GoldSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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