Editor Quotes
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Edit Quotes
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Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
Mark Helprin
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Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed
Elbert Hubbard
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[on Darryl F. Zanuck] Nobody liked working for Zanuck, the little goddamn Napolean, always walking around with his polo mallet. Nobody had any respect for him except as an executive. And he was a good editor at one time, but he fancied himself a writer, a...
John Carradine
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Director is little bit of everything, little bit of the writer, little bit of an actor, little bit of an editor, little bit of a costume designer. Good director is the director who chooses for this profession people who are better than he is. Yes, I can w...
Milos Forman
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[of his position at "The Daily Show" (1996)]: I mostly work on writing the show. We have a talented crew of writers and I`m like the managing editor. I am the fake Lou Grant of the fake news world. [February 2003].
Jon Stewart
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A fashion editor at Vogue, that would be awesome. (On her dream job)
Michelle Trachtenberg
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Times have changed and sex sells. Around 1990, I voluntarily went into rehab because I was drinking too much and some smart ass editor said, `Oh another boring story about an actor going to rehab. Let`s give him sex addiction.` Then it became `Self-confes...
Michael Douglas
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(on his decision to pursue an acting career) So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to ...
John Mahoney
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[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film ed...
Alfred Hitchcock
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You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise
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You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise
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You cannot have to both represent a party line as a frontbench spokesman and be editor of an independent-minded magazine - the two are incompatible.
Andrew Neil
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Writers` bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor`s early wake-up call.
Bill Walsh
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When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
Mort Walker
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When I`m my own editor, there`s very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Len Wein
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When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
Jonathan Carroll
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When I finish my editor`s cut of one show, the dailies for the next show are already coming in. Yet I still have to work with the director, the writer and the producer on the old show while the footage for the new show is coming in.
David Rogers
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This is an appointment which is so right, and I just know that Gary will make an outstanding political editor. He`s a razor sharp political journalist whose judgement and insights are utterly sure-footed, as demonstrated in his masterful handling of some ...
Jim Gray
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This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.
Rod Parsley
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The secret of our success is that we are not a clone of the U.S. edition. We let the local publisher and editor interpret the brand with a local voice.
George Green
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The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn`t always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they`re more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
Eric Brown
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The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
Christopher Darden
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
Kyle MacLachlan
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The Deakin editor [James McConville] has spent a lot of time talking up his review and talking down other law schools,
Arnie Wexler
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Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you`re supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel
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Since I sort of invented the editor that was most complicated, I thought I would compensate by also designing the editor that was most simple.
Al Sowers
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Since I sort of invented the editor that was most complicated, I thought I would compensate by also designing the editor that was most simple.
Al Sowers
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Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
Tim Cahill
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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.
Andrew Magulick
