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One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation. Robert Mankoff
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I was really the first-line editor of the 'House of Night' series. I didn't write that much of the story, and I didn't know what was happening until my mom finished the book and sent it to me because I wanted to read it with fresh eyes as a general reader would. Kristin Cast
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Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public. Charles Stross
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LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it. James Salter
editor great known
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. John Glen
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My editor and I had a theory that if the movie engages their attention, they won't mind sitting there for three hours - which I find true myself. Frank Darabont
editors names together
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together. Dean Koontz
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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com. Hanya Yanagihara
great movies personal
There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes. Isabella Rossellini
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try. Kristy Swanson
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts. Mallory Ortberg
great laureate
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun. Malorie Blackman
great value
Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team. Jerry Reinsdorf
great life paint throw
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. Danny Kaye
great life paint throw
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye
great greatest life transcend truth
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it. Scott Peck
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Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all. William Congreve
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With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman
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Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony... Karen Cason
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Many are esteemed, only because they are not known French Proverb
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McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching. Jennifer Robinson
known people
No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it. Jacquie Small
known
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. Chris Crutcher
known people
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. Tom Stoppard
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I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game? Plaxico Burress
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I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world. Eddie Palmieri