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The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

— Stephen King

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

— Matt Tyrnauer

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

— John Waters

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy…

— Ted Cruz

The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that…

— David Dellinger

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when…

— Nicki Minaj

There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to…

— Charlie Sheen

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage…

— Bill Moyers

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't…

— Agnes Varda

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part…

— Audrey Tautou