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"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism."
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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"
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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
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"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."
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"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."
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"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."
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"With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true."
Business
"The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine."
Music
"My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do."
Father
"I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt."
Business
"I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life."
Life
"I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people."
Family
"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
Media
"My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good."
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"Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years."
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"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism."
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