Critical Quotes
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it
Allan Bloom
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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groun...
Marshall McLuhan
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
Subject: Criticism QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Creativity QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius
Billy Wilder
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When I look into a mirror, I am very critical of myself. I see a goofy girl.
Britney Spears
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Why can`t I gush a little? Why can`t I make them feel tremendously special? Who says you have to go in there and be critical and acerbic? I will not be that jaded journalist, I will not add to any of that nastiness.
Star Jones
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My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to prese...
Val Kilmer
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I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director`s ignorance. I wasn`t sensitive to the ...
Val Kilmer
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[on the critical plaudits earned by The Last Picture Show (1971)] I`m very gratified by the reception. It`s gone beyond my wildest dreams. To have your picture compared to Citizen Kane (1941) is incredible; certainly it isn`t true, but it`s nice to have i...
Peter Bogdanovich
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[on John Wayne] I gave him a piece of material that I thought had potential for us to do as a younger guy and an older guy. He wrote me back critical of it. He had seen High Plains Drifter (1973), and he didn`t think that represented Americana like She Wo...
Clint Eastwood
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I`m really aware of my disappointments, what movies I didn`t like when I was done. I`m not so sure they line up with public or critical disappointments. But if I have to reduce my life to the box office, I can see what the up-and-down thing is. Popularity...
Kevin Costner
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I`ve seen thousands of films where people are brought down, where it`s "life is terrible and we all agree" and the critical audience is over here for that, and the general public is over here. And it seems that cinema has gone out, or life, has gone out a...
Jim Sheridan
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[On being a star] It can still be very surreal. It`s easy to become very self-critical when you`re an actor. Then you get critiqued be the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
Keanu Reeves
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You start to really lose perspective on the movie when the critical response is as weirdly, regressively unanimous as it is. I`m such a natural skeptic that I start thinking, `Maybe it actually sucks.`
Paul Giamatti
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Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can`t just say `hi`. You say hi and people whisper `Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude.`
Juliette Lewis
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[on critics] "You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I`m very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession. I trust them to be extremely critical but I trus...
George Lucas
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[on critics] "You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I`m very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession. I trust them to be extremely critical but I trus...
George Lucas
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Alec Guinness
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There are a lot of Americans I sympathise with very much, but not the Government right now, no. We just do not agree on politics, but that`s not being Anti-American. I am critical about a country with a system that allows so many losers. I think that is w...
Lars von Trier
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You want to have a critical success and you want people to go see it. It`s disappointing if something`s well reviewed and no one goes to see it.
Ralph Fiennes
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Year Two is a critical year for any television show.
Josh Schwartz
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Yeah, I do. To me, the audience can be one person. I`m so critical of myself that it`s really hard for me to like get high on my own shit. I sometimes manage to do it, but most of the time not. So if I have somebody in the room that I`m sure they`ll dig t...
Yngwie Malmsteen
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Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it`s a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
John Mayall
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Without a doubt, it`s been the events of September 11th and their aftermath. There`s never been a more critical time in the airline business.
Alan Seay
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With such a critical driver shortage facing the industry, now, more than ever, trucking is consistently looking toward recruiting and retaining a pool of experienced workers.
Anne Lamott
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With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.
Andre Caminada
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While I`m critical to the Bush presidency, it`s been enormously beneficial for Salon because we`re seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those rea...
David Talbot
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While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
Amanda Anderson
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