#critics

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#any #being #concern #critics #cut

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#awards #box #box office #control #critics

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#bush #counterterrorism #country #critics #defend

Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning. ↗

— Félix J. Palma

#writers-on-writing #dreams

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#freedom #friends #writing #art

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#even #fair #heed #not fair #resist

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them. ↗

— Craig Charles

#creepy #critics #had #i #look

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. ↗

— Tim Curry

#being #best #concerned #critics #disaster

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. ↗

— John Grisham

#bashed #critics #fiction #get #going

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#choices #comfortable #confidence #critics #easier