Reworking Quotes

#1. I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

Zach Condon

#2. ...it was easy to forget that Washington was just another glum city of government, like Albany or Sacramento, legislators and lobbyists and bureaucrats and their clerks working and reworking the sodden language of government in order to distribute the spoils.

Ward Just

#3. The 'total overpaintings' developed ... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

Arnulf Rainer

#4. Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Shirley Maclaine

#5. Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

Heather Sellers

#6. I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

Adam Schlesinger

#7. I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.

Elizabeth Rogers

#8. The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

George Carlin

#9. As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places - even Oran or Hades.

Robert Zaretsky

#10. I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Joanne Harris

#11. I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

Sally Mann

#12. It doesn't mean I'm not thinking it. I always feel a bit defeated when I have to follow up with "I love you too". It's like the sequel to a film: I Love You and I Love You Too. You know the second one's always going to be a predictable reworking of the first.

James Hannah

#13. I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.

John Landgraf

#14. We can't do justice to our dreams, reworking them in memory. They seem borrowed, part of another life, ours only maybe and only in the farthest margins.

Don DeLillo

#15. I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with society. That work has the most value. That is the function of the artist. That result.

Lawrence Weiner

#16. The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

Joseph Conrad

#17. Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.

Pope Francis

#18. The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

James Naismith

#19. To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Ralph Boston

#20. I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

Jim Cornette

#21. ... kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

Aimee Bender

#22. The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

Pete McCloskey

#23. It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Karen Blixen

#24. An important question in mental health shouldn't be "What's wrong with you?" but, rather, "What's happened to you?

Eleanor Longden

#25. It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.

Susan Sarandon

#26. You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Bryan Cranston

#27. Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Phyllis Bottome

#28. When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Flea

#29. Get good, get committed and get it going...

Farshad Asl