#critic

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws. ↗

— Donald Fagen

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There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. ↗

— Susie Bright

#before #christian #criticism #distance #morality

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #critic #direct #distracted #expectations

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#going #hurting #people #understand #you

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better. ↗

— Michael Caine

#always #am #better #compete #critic

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. ↗

— John Updike

#fiction #hugging #open #poetry #sailing

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. ↗

— George Carey

#critics #described #expert #i #jesus

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#although #best #could #critic #film

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.' ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#amount #anything #come #critical #culture

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. ↗

— John McCarthy

#book #butcher #critic #favorite #his