Editors Quotes - Page 33

• When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Editing, Ideas

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Book, School

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

  O. Henry

  Men, Differences, Long

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.671, Delphi Classics

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• Procrustes was an editor.

  Robin Skelton

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  Jack Germond

  Heart, Paper, Pay

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• The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Church, England

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

  Eddie Mair

  Home, Sick, Today

  PM Newsletter, August 2006.

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• What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Fall, Errors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

  Kate Cary

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Technology, Editing, Pieces

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

  Sefi Atta

  Book, Names, Differences

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• If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

  Voltaire

  Style, Answers, Critics

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

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• You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

  Robert Stone

  Regret, Want, Rest Of Your Life

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• One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

  Will McDonough

  Sports, Jobs, Boston

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• I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.

  Donna Tartt

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Believe, Firsts, Gauges

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise): A Political Economy Book”, p.177, e-artnow

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• There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Unique, Editing, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.

  Harold Evans

  Jobs, Thinking, Voice

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  Geneva Overholser

  Thinking, Offending, Names

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• It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Practice, Principles, Should

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• I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

  Indira Varma

  Directors, Way, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

  Betty Friedan

  College, Years, Paper

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Magazines, Offended

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

  Ru Freeman

  Smart, Needs, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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