Mixed Reactions Quotes

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.

Some people have never fancied me, but there have been plenty others who have backed me.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

Some of the fans are mad at me, some of the fans cheer for me, I can't worry about that.

I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.

People have lots of different feelings about what happened when Sen. Franken made the really hard decision to resign. I have come to respect people have lots of different feelings, sometimes very strong feelings, and they're not all the same.

I had a feeling there would be mixed reactions.

Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.

Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.

Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

We … travelled through the enemy's territory on our way to the ferry and while the streets were very full and there were many waves and cheers, there was no lack of boos which amused me a good deal, for I rather think that that kind of demonstration is an asset in certain ways. After all the whole world can't think and feel alike!

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.

It's up and down, and people are going to love things you do, people are going to hate things you do.

People love the fact Chael Sonnen is saying he's undefeated. It's crazy to me that people like something like that but don't give respect to the fighters that just put it on the line.

With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We've provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one.

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.