"Women are the harshest critics of other women."
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"Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate."
"I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously."
"Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello."
"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."
"You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going."
"I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs."
"Sociological critics are waste makers."
"If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke."
"Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics."
"An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic."
"A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned."
"I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains."
"Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune."
"Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional."
"Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in."
"Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely."
"I know all the critics."
"Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it."
"I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them."