I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.
If you don’t perform, and you’re part of the team, whether you’re playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that’s something you can’t really get away from. If you don’t perform, you will be criticised.
I love film criticism as an art. I think it’s a very important thing.
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.
Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I’d be playing a nonbinary character on ‘Steven Universe.’ I never really had the words like nonbinary or gender fluid or gender nonconforming until after ‘Drag Race’ and that’s when I first started identifying publicly as nonbinary.
My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
I think that’s unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it’s something to be revered beyond criticism.
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
As far as criticism, I don’t mind critics. I mean, I wrote for ‘Rolling Stone’ for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don’t like is cruelty for cruelty’s sake. You don’t have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative – a dreaded ‘right-winger.’
One must take things lightly, after all, we are entertainers and acting isn’t rocket science. The trick is, not to take criticism to the heart or analyse things too much.
I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they’re just extra sensitive.
People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There’s a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar’s life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America’s death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
Don’t think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.
I don’t have any problems with criticism.
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
If you’re going to perform, you’re going to attract criticism. You can’t please everyone all the time. You don’t know how things are going to come out. But that’s part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.
Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.
Literature is always about bygone times. It’s always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.
Be your own biggest critic. Don’t let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.
If there’s a criticism of ‘Cassadaga’ that I agreed with, it’s that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.
There’s a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it’s fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, ‘Why even try to work toward peace if we’re just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?’
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
I will take all the criticism constructively. It will help me to learn and improve with every film.
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone – commenting on everything simply because they can. That’s not what cultural criticism is.
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
You can’t make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that’s it… you’re always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher’s name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.
If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it’s that they’re almost entirely scripted.
Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don’t get them, and they’re going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism – and not necessarily blindly follow the audience’s requests and advice.
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can’t take a bit of criticism, you shouldn’t bother publishing a book.
If I see myself on a worst-dressed list – and I’ve been on many of them – I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I’m wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!
When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
There is always some criticism. Tell me one thing that Narendra Modi does and you don’t criticise. If he gives a chance to newcomers, you say he forgot the old guard; if he gives a chance to an incumbent, you say Modi doesn’t give a chance to young leaders.
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it’s a process; it doesn’t happen overnight.
Some people in this nation believe that race is a significant factor in the constant attacks against President Obama. Others believe that these attacks reflect only the normal level of criticism aimed at the occupant of the White House.
Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.
Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.
Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show – on the history of previous productions (if it’s a revival) and the creative team.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
You try to shut the criticism out, but it’s pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that you know are in your corner, and they come and tell you how bad they feel, and that’s not the kind of conversation you want. I don’t want anyone to feel bad for me.
Many years, I would publish four books – an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
