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People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones. — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean! — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. — Sheila Nevins Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I've had some bad reviews, but not as bad as the things I could imagine for myself. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion. — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a… — Ander Herrera Copy Share Image
“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
“[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work… — Jeff Cardoni Copy Share Image
“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They… — Commonweal Copy Share Image
“[On Brave New World] “Mr. Huxley has been born too late. Seventy years ago, the great powers of his mind would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even a bad review is still a review. It means someone cared enough to take the time to say: Hey, this sucks.… — C.W. Gortner Copy Share Image
An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“[Ulysses] appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine… I… — Aramis Copy Share Image
“Mr. Melville is evidently trying to ascertain how far the public will consent to be imposed upon. He is gauging, at once,… — John L. O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life. — Will Friedle Copy Share Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them. — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
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![“[On Brave New World] “Mr. Huxley has been born too late. Seventy years ago, the great powers of his mind would have been anchored to some mighty certitude, or to some equally mighty scientific denial of a certitude. Today he searches heaven and earth for a Commandment, but searches in vain: and…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/156/anonymous-1_bad-reviews_on-brave-new-world-mr-huxley-has-been-bo_1864107.jpg)
![“An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to…” quote by Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd6/sergio-leone-7185_accounts_an-important-italian-critic-once-gave-fi_1064129.jpg)
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