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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Walt Disne

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

Frank Sinatra

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Don't pay any attention to the critics-don't even ignore them.

Samuel Goldwyn

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not

Edward Albee

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Dustin Hoffman

All critics should be assassinated.

Man Ray

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Spike Lee

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Malcolm X

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs

John Osborne

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Stephen Jay Gould

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

George Moore

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Samuel Johnson

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Chuck Jones

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

Suzanne Fields

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics

Mark Twain

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

K. Eric Drexler

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all..

Isaac Asimov

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Isaac Asimov

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