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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. — Nora Roberts
If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had… — Rachael Taylor
There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information… — Tate Taylor
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you… — Glen Hansard
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're… — Glen Hansard
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love… — Tim DeKay
There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime… — Richard Dean Anderson
TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways… — Alan Bradley
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the… — John Frankenheimer
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but,… — John Frankenheimer
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing… — Kelly Jones
I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to… — Stan Getz
Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and… — Stephen Daldry
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of… — Cory Doctorow
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… — Karen Thompson Walker
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions… — Seth Godin
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining. — Erin O'Connor
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit… — Henry Louis Gates
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself.… — William Gibson
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen.… — Gail Collins

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