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Quotes About Critique

I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.
~ Misty Copeland
It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.
~ Gillian Flynn
Guess what Jeff found in his cabin for me, Grete says, another book by the Martian Chronicle guy. Ray Bradburrow, Jeff says. Bradbury, I think. Yeah, right, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Grete says, It's good. She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book. It's good or it's bad, I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad - like a hot dog.
~ Gillian Flynn
She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad.
~ Gillian Flynn
Either way felt weird. Either way would lead to jokes. Trey was the kind of guy that would look for something just slightly but truly wrong about you that you didn't even notice and point it out to the whole room.
~ Gillian Flynn
Yeah, right. Something Wicked This Way Comes,' Greta says. 'It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.
~ Gillian Flynn
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth! Only a Janus, groaned Hamilton.
~ Gordon Korman
Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art.
~ Gore Vidal
This is not at all bad, except as prose.
~ Gore Vidal
tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, I never quite understand why English people like teas so.
~ Graham Greene
'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.
~ Tony Bradman
Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.
~ Phoebe Bridgers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
~ Will Rogers
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
~ H. L. Mencken
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
~ Harold Bloom
There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
~ Garry Trudeau
There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.
~ Frankie Boyle
I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.
~ Ezra Furman
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
~ Laurence Sterne
Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.
~ Bob Elliott
I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.
~ Eliza Dushku
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
~ Edgar Wright
I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.
~ Elias Koteas