The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency… — Betsy Sholl Copy Share Image
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
...slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent.… — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours… — Grimes Copy Share Image
My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the… — Jessie Kahnweiler Copy Share Image
[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
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