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Reviews are destructive by their very nature. -- John Malkovich
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. -- Euripides
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. -- James Franco
Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on. -- Kelley Armstrong
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words. -- Drake
Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth. -- Miranda Hart
Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity." -- Steve Martin
The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. -- Taylor Swift
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. -- Les Brown
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. -- William Faulkner
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. -- Danielle Steel
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. -- James Russell Lowell
I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does... -- Ginger Rogers
Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals. -- Jack Canfield
I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me. -- Max Reger
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing? Not the worst review the movie got. -- Tina Fey
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. -- Isaac Asimov
Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof." -- Tina Fey
Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified. -- Andrew of Crete
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know - to be loved. -- Rita Hayworth
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again. -- Roger Ebert
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' -- Barbra Streisand
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention. -- William S. Burroughs
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful. -- Barry Manilow
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below. -- Harry S. Truman
However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction. -- Paulo Coelho
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews. -- Anna Quindlen
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. -- Werner Herzog
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I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure. -- Norman Finkelstein
People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief. -- Michael Chabon
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad. -- Sia Furler
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews. -- Lupe Fiasco
I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say. -- Will Chase
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. -- Sandy Koufax
I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews. -- Wes Anderson
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one. -- Eleanor Catton
How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones. -- Catherine Tate
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. -- Tom Stoppard
Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. -- Stu Jackson
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. -- Tennessee Williams
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. -- Barry Hannah
I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them. -- Kate Levering
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble. -- John Carpenter
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful. -- Ha-Joon Chang
What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts. -- Eve
Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality. -- Roelof Botha
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite. -- Arundhati Roy
Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? -- James Patterson
To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. -- Adam Sandler
I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them. -- Terry Zwigoff
I don't read reviews. -- Andrea Arnold
I'm used to bad reviews. -- Roger Moore
I often don't read reviews. -- Ian Mcewan
I don't usually read reviews. -- Steve Earle
God gets the easiest performance reviews. -- Daryl Gregory
Mushy reviews are a breach of faith -- Wilfrid Sheed
Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey. -- Orhan Pamuk
I get terrible reviews everywhere I go. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I'm not used to getting good reviews. -- Pauly Shore
I try my hardest not to read reviews. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I try my hardest not to read reviews. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
The bad reviews get to me, believe me. -- Daniel Craig
I live in the house bad reviews built. -- Paul Stanley
I don't read my reviews, I measure them. -- Arnold Bennett
Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored. -- Neil Diamond
I don't generally do movies that get good reviews. -- Sean William Scott
I always get a little bit scared reading reviews. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews. -- Heidi Julavits
I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that. -- Mary Elizabeth Ellis
I never read reviews of something I want to see. -- Jeff Bridges
If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level. -- Sean Lennon
I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes. -- Lena Dunham
I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life. -- David Cross
We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start. -- Ivan Reitman
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews. -- Bob Woodward
It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews. -- Kenny Loggins
For friends' reviews, sample chapters and more pictures go to my website -- Leni Goodman
Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read. -- Jack Woodford
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life. -- Will Friedle
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews. -- Roger Maris
If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks -- Susan Egan
They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out. -- Barbra Streisand
When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews. -- Adam McKay
I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity. -- Max Winkler
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself. -- Edward Albee
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15. -- Mark A. Cooper
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life. -- Lev Grossman
People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice. -- Jon Hamm
I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists. -- Estelle
I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews. -- Mark Ruffalo
People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones. -- Jay Rayner
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. -- Carlos Fuentes
If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. -- Ian Mcewan
I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did. -- Nicole Kidman
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me. -- Jonathan Gold
I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews. -- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad. -- Eve Best
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers... -- Truman Capote
I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work. -- Nell Freudenberger
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. -- Gore Vidal
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews~? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews. -- Evan Goldberg
I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar. -- Elaine Stritch
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. -- Erica Jong
Novels are readOr their authors are blue.Support Indie writers:Buy their books, post reviews! -- Cheri Gillard
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them. -- Oscar Levant
I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies. -- Steven Soderbergh
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. -- Paul Auster
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. -- Zubin Mehta
I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews. -- Susan Isaacs

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