Edited Quotes

• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Saint, Saints And Sinners, Sinner

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 306

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.

  Peter York

  White, People, Chocolate

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• What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end up with what you could call a time singularity - where there's no way for everything that happens to happen in real time. It's something that you need to wink at.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Order, Needs

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Animal, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.21, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I love the edited version of it.

  Terry Gross

  Versions

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• If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.

  Rian Hughes

  Media, Convenience, Disco

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• There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

  Steven Hall

  Clever, Writing, Together

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• We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

  J. G. Ballard

  Meaningful, Art, Sex

  "JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, www.jgballard.ca. 1998.

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• When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.

  Dennis Cooper

  Love You, Thinking, Feelings

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• Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.

  Brian Sibley

  Cutting, Two, Example

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• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fall, Our Words, Entertainment

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• The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Self, Patient, Foolish

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• I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cutting, Thinking, Stories

  "Amy Sedaris Likes To Watch You Cry". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

  Terry Gross

  Real, Life Is, Boring

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• At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hurt, Book, Cat

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

  Walter Murch

  Cutting, Avid, Editing

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• Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Thinking, Musical

  Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Book, Long

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• As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article by Albert Jay Nock, in which he proved that the Jews are an Oriental race that is incompatible with ours. He was not punished and the magazine was not destroyed, strange and almost incredible as that seems today.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Summer, Men, Race

  "A World Grown Grey With Their Breath". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, January 1988.

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• All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

  Bruce Willis

  Couple, Cameras, Directors

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• After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

  Kyle Cassie

  Voice, Awards, Nominations

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