The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
I've never been critically acclaimed. I've never been nominated for no Grammy. I've never been on no magazine cover. It's almost taboo to say I'm actually good.
The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.
If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.
Even if you have presidents like FDR dealing with someone like Stalin, with whom he didn't exactly all the time disagree... He wasn't always in lockstep saying Stalin was wonderful all the time. Donald Trump never criticizes Putin.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.
The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.
I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.
