Afeni Shakur Quotes

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.

You score the winner against a tough opponent and you still get heaped on.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?

It's not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like 'Nippu,' 'Devudu Chesina Manushulu' and 'Sarostaru' which were really bad. But, 'Veera' and 'Dharuvu' had done well. Strangely, people have added them to my 'flop list.'

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

I've got a good record, but maybe, for whatever reason, it's not built up by people. I wouldn't say I'm hard done by. But it's true that I sometimes don't get the praise.

I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's easy to dislike, but I don't get it. Whatever. I'll do what I do.

Even if Narendra Modi sneezes, people will find a reason to criticise him for that.

My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.

Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.

The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.

I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and stupid and smells like poo.'

I've not always played well for City, but I'd never been the scapegoat, coming off at half-time when in my head I thought I was having a decent game. It was weird, unnatural, it had never happened to me before and it felt like no matter what I did it wasn't good enough any more.

As long as you are winning, everything is fine, and you lose a game, and all hell breaks loose. That is grossly unfair. We should not overlook someone's past achievements just because he is going through a bad patch.

The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down.

People criticising me for my emotional outburst are not humans.

We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.

It sucks, being perceived as a person that you're not; it sucks being hated.