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Robert M. Gates Politician
Criticism

"If possible, to be in a position to announce who is going to step in as the interim immediately. And if possible, to announce who you're going to nominate to replace that person. For that to be somebody of impeccable integrity and reputation disarms a lot of the worst criticism that it's some kind of a power play. It's a professional approach to replacing a senior official, which is always going to get a lot of attention."

Integrity Criticism Senior
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Stephen King Author
Criticism

"And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism."

Character Criticism Mouths
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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
Criticism

"Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe it, I can withstand anything."

Believe Said Criticism
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Criticism

"Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are."

Mean Art Criticism
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Criticism

"Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories."

Art Criticism Dubious
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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Criticism

"Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that."

Way Criticism Serious
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Mackenzie Davis Actress
Criticism

"When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character."

Character Sometimes Criticism
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H. Burke Peterson Religious Leader
Criticism

"It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse."

Feelings Criticism Frustration
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Zendaya Actress, Singer, Model
Criticism

"I think a lot of women can see themselves in me and a lot of people in general are empowered by seeing someone wear what they want, do what they want, maybe get criticism or get praise, whatever, but still continue to wear and do what they want. I think that a lot of people need that."

People Thinking Criticism
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Criticism

"The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews."

Writing Years Criticism
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Criticism

"One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you."

World Way Criticism
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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Criticism

"Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them."

Writing Criticism Critics
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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Criticism

"A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram."

Criticism Artistic Abbreviations
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Criticism

"No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism."

Men Book Criticism
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Criticism

"Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing."

Moving Artist Criticism
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Criticism

"I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it."

People Two Criticism
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