Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.
The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
One of the things that's hardest as an actor is you are being critiqued constantly, and having your mother critiquing you can be challenging.
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.
As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.
I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
