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- It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.
- Bill Maher
- Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky
- My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
- Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
- Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
- A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
- Kenneth Tynan
- Go away. I'm all right.
- H.G. Wells, last words
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