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Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
Tikkun (July-August 1989) -
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
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If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
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If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
The Roving Critic (1923) -
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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