"The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has."

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Source : Source: www.newyorker.com

David Denby

#Emotional Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.”
“Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love ...”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.165, Paulist Press
“Your thoughts of God are too human”
“Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.”
“Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go itâ€™s own merry way at itâ€™s own pace. But if you do then you â€“ and life â€“ will be the richer for you being here.”
“It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
“A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.”

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