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Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all… — Ralph Fiennes 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
There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie,… — Josh Radnor 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
It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you.… — David Ayer 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
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
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition,… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful… — Shawn Amos 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
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Sometimes the guys who run the visual effects shop will bury it in and not tell us. We'll be in the middle… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500… — Harold Evans 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
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come… — Woody Allen 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
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
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![“[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."” quote by Jimmy Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ae/jimmy-buffett-1774_boat_writing-is-edit-edit-edit-it-s-almost-li_497550.jpg)
![“Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian…” quote by Garth Kravits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5e/garth-kravits-46801_american-film_our-film-hide-and-seek-was-created-as-pa_1028338.jpg)
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