Edits Quotes - Page 3

• One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Advantage

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sorry, Book, Writing

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• I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Looks

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• Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

  David Shields

  Art, Reality, Economic Models

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• 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. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

  William Gibson

  Running, Art, Shoes

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• 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 the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Past, Order, Years

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• I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

  Al Yankovic

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

  Donald Davis

  Editors, Fool, Journalism

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• I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technology, Sound, Computer

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• Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Mistake, Mean, Artist

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• He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Believe, Angel, Sacrifice

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• In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.

  Daniel Espinosa

  Disappointment, Cutting, Editing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

  Erica Jong

  Discipline

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• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Inspiration, Play

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• And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Fire, Editing And Writing, Shows

  Arthur Plotnik (1984). “The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing, you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.

  Joe Dante

  Eye, Editing, Issues

  "Joe Dante On How Converted 3-D Blockbusters Screwed Indie Horror The Hole (Plus: Whatever Happened To Omri Katz?)". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. October 1, 2012.

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• When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Thinking, Too Much

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• I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

  Lee Unkrich

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Marriage, Finals, Proposal

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• I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, School

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• I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

  James Hetfield

  Song, Play, Long

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• I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Brazil, Pages, London

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• I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

  Vincent Gallo

  Pain, Talking, Abortion

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• I adore vintage clothes. When I go on the road doing auditions for So You Think You Can Dance, I always research the cities we're traveling to so I know where all the best vintage stores are. There are several stores and flea markets I love here in LA. Shareen is amazing with the best edit in town! Golyester is great. I really enjoy the Rose Bowl market. A word of warning: wear layers, comfortable shoes, be prepared to hunt, and fuel yourself with a bucket of cappuccino! Enjoy!

  Cat Deeley

  Thinking, Vintage, Cities

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