I never read reviews of something I want to see.
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.
I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.
Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.
Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.
I often don't read reviews.
I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to work with those two guys.
To review ones store is to mow twice.
Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.
I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.
It's much easier to say negative things in a review.
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
I live in the house bad reviews built.
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.
There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
I'm not used to getting good reviews.
I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that.
I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive....
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
The history of this division, partly because of the devices element, is that reviews and approvals tend to be very slow, so we made realistic to conservative assumptions on what the review period should be.
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers
The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.
And, if it holds true as the number of reviews expand, that becomes more valuable.
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.
Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
Reviews are destructive by their very nature.
I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.
To read is human, to review is divine.
Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.
If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.
At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.
If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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.
If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks
I don't usually read reviews.
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
I try my hardest not to read reviews.
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!
Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.
Mushy reviews are a breach of faith
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.
A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.