Quotes About Criticism

It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views. And writers, of course, subscribe enthusiastically to this idea.

Many people have strong views on McDonald's.

I have no problem with people challenging my views and my positions. I want to be clear that I'm not asking anybody to stop challenging me. But I will not accept being called an anti-Semite.

The culture of ganging up against one for airing his/her views prevails here in Tamil Nadu.

I give balanced, constructive views and what happens is that bits and pieces of what I say are used against me.

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.

Whenever I or the Sena make our views known, we are dubbed anti-government.

Reggae is vile.

As Churchill's grandson, I am in daily receipt of vile correspondence from people telling me that I am a traitor to his memory.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

I've got terrible hate mail basically saying I'm vile and evil.

I think it's vile when people pick on women after giving birth and highly unrealistic to expect women to get right back to their pre-pregnancy shape in 3 months.

I don't agree with those who demonize or vilify the FBI.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I had to hear the criticism of people.

Our village is very small, so I wasn't surprised when I heard some negative comments from my neighbours on my interest in sports. But nothing mattered, as I always knew what I was doing and why I was doing it.

Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

My one criticism of Vertigo Crime to date is that it's been a boys' club, reveling in violence that, while entertainingly lurid, lacks depth. Of course, the comics world is deliberately double-dimensional - and shouldn't apologize for being so.