#critics

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ardent #believer #claims #contrary #critics

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#critics #decisions #good #i #made

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#birthday #birthday party #called #critics #day

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#bring #cant #critics #feeling #gets

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#critics #stage #world

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#critics #doing #i #think #understand

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. ↗

— John Milius

#been #critics #darling #everybody #i

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art-criticism #critics #insight #knowledge #music-criticism

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#duty #virtues #writers #beauty

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please? ↗

— David Ives

#humor #theatre #design