I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics. — Janet Fish Copy Share Image
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
“People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.” — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived). — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it. — Anupam Roy Copy Share Image
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The reason I love blogs so much right now is that I am seeing more critical voices appear, and that's kind of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just… — James Moore Copy Share Image
There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
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