#critics

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies. ↗

— Gina Gershon

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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles. ↗

— Justin Guarini

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice. ↗

— Paul Harris

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