#evie

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#career #finally #first #first time #getting

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#cabinet #committee #created #did #environment

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#because #detested #enemy #reviewer #singularly

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#faithfully #just #liked #need #really

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #review #surprise #sympathetic #wonderful

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#essays #exception #i #interesting #me

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#enjoy #i #i do #most #much

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#became #booked #first #hughes #i