Quotes About Critique

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.

The West Wing' is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking.

Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.

I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.

I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of 'The Sopranos,' I give up. There's an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as cultural studies.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is not the novel that previews what's coming; it's rather Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The contemporary social critic James Poulos calls this the "Pink Police State": an informal arrangement in which people will surrender political rights in exchange for guarantees of personal pleasure.

I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my fellow conservatives—chiefly an uncritical enthusiasm for the market—can in some circumstances undermine the thing that I, as a traditionalist, considered the most important institution to conserve: the family.

By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.