Little Edit Quotes

#1. We have a full writers' room, and with something like 'MyMusic,' we've scripted it out with professional writers. There is some very basic improv from the actors, but everything is very to the letter, so it's easy to edit down to an episode. There are fun little things an actor might throw in there.

Benny Fine

#2. Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#3. Are you insane?" she'd replied.
"Yes." Jeoff didn't even bat an eye as he admitted it.
-Arabella & Jeoff

Eve Langlais

#4. I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Victoria Abril

#5. Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.

Jenny Han

#6. The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

D. A. Pennebaker

#7. I shuttered from hairdo to shoe-sole

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

Junot Diaz

#9. Memories are funny things, aren't they? They're like your own private little picture show. You can edit and splice and put 'em together any way you want.

Layce Gardner

#10. If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

Jaggi Vasudev

#11. Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.

Penn Jillette

#13. Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.

Chris Ware

#14. The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

Kerry Bishe

#15. I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

Andy Dick

#16. There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

Helen Gurley Brown

#17. I don't want to know when you've been tied up in the fun way, I told him.

T.J. Klune

#18. In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

Mary Norton

#19. I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

Garrison Keillor

#20. Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Marianne Williamson

#21. Truth hurts, it can't be buried. One moment she goes out...

Deyth Banger

#22. I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

Eddie Vedder

#23. The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.

Walter Mosley

#24. When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

Eli Roth