Editors Quotes - Page 33

• So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

  Daniel Pipes

  Cartoon, Hamburgers, Cows

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

  Eddie Mair

  Home, Sick, Today

  PM Newsletter, August 2006.

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• It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Ideas, Drink

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, kedm.org. March 31, 2018.

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• The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Church, England

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Book, School

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Fall, Errors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Brain, Firsts, Looking Good

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Able, Journalism

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Able, Journalism

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.294, 北戴河出版

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• Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Devil, Pay, Newspapers

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Feet, Perfection

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Talking, Differences, Evil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, San Francisco, Office

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Eye, Exercise, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Stars, War

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• I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

  Girl Talk

  Fall, Math, Engineering

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

  David Benioff

  Needs, Fiction, Might

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.90, Penguin

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• I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Scripts, Sandman

  "The Sandman Companion". Book by Hy Bender, 1999.

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• The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

  Keith Rabois

  Jobs, Mean, Important

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• I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

  Richard Dawkins

  Biblical, Evil, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Editing, Ideas

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  Jack Germond

  Heart, Paper, Pay

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• The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

  Philip K. Dick

  Nuts, Letters, Hell

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Confessions of a Crap Artist”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Unique, Editing, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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