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168 quotes by 159 authors

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing.… — Andy Goldsworthy
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they… — Atom Egoyan
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. — Nia Vardalos
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. — Kurt Loder
TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Control, edit and distill. — Van Day Truex
You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one… — Caitlin Moran
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here. — Ben Nicholson
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it… — Garry Marshall
Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge. — James Scott Bell
No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and… — Mary Ellen Mark
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline
The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is… — Angeles Arrien
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are… — Frederick Wiseman
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. — Mark Twain
I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit. — Jakob Dylan
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. — Erica Jong
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface… — Philippa Perry

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