Edited Quotes

• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Saint, Saints And Sinners, Sinner

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 306

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• The worst thing that can happen is when you have gone weeks and months into elaborate sequences and the storyline of the film changes and you find out they don't need it. Sometimes you don't shoot those sequences, or they have been shot and then get edited out of the sequence you've shot gets changed and needs to be redone. That can be hard. It's not heartbreaking, but you do tend to think, "Och, all that work and effort." But that's filming, you know? You put all of these modular things into the pot, and sometimes they don't all get used.

  Wade Eastwood

  Thinking, Effort, Heartbreaking

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.

  Evan Jacobs

  Cutting, Phones, Holy Grail

  Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com

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• Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Counting, Written

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

  Ava DuVernay

  Editors, My Best Friend, Together

  Source: deadline.com

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• I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I just wrote notes about things that happened that day or funny thoughts I'd had. If I had a truly eventful day, I'd take the time to write it all down in great detail. I edited a lot of content out once it was all finished - there was way too much, and I didn't want to bore anyone. I like to keep the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] moving at a fast pace.

  Andy Cohen

  Morning, Moving, Book

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Sound, Care, Film

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Thinking, Musical

  Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

  Walter Murch

  Cutting, Avid, Editing

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• Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hurt, Book, Cat

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

  Terry Gross

  Real, Life Is, Boring

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• I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cutting, Thinking, Stories

  "Amy Sedaris Likes To Watch You Cry". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2011.

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• The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Self, Patient, Foolish

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• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fall, Our Words, Entertainment

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• SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Fool, Distinction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.211, University of Georgia Press

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• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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• I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.

  Theodora Goss

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• It's a weird sound [ "Animals"] inspired by a hip hop drum loop. I listen to a lot of hip hop tracks and it's not used quite often in House currently. I chopped up the loop and edited it so you wouldn't recognize the original.

  Martin Garrix

  Animal, Track, House

  Source: www.tristateindie.com

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• After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

  Kyle Cassie

  Voice, Awards, Nominations

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• I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.

  Michel Gondry

  Judging, Directors, Doe

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.

  Alison Pill

  Rehearsal, Stuff, Matching

  Source: collider.com

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• You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Television, Way

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