Quotes about editors
editors biographies pleasure
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. George Plimpton
editors theatre acting
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. Jean Cocteau
editors devil journalism
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.] Jean de La Fontaine
editors devil pay
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. Jean de La Fontaine
editors newspaper ripe situation
These newspaper editors should have exercised better judgment. This situation is ripe for exploitation by extremists.
editors reach whether
We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right. Bill Walsh
editors producers talented
It's not only the talented editors and producers but also the machines, Mark Burnett
editors our-time
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey
editors white long
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias. Evan Thomas
editors giving safe
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. Gilbert K. Chesterton
editors track decision
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting. Jay Roach
editors common-sense giving
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment. H. L. Mencken
editors helping convinced
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors. H. L. Mencken
editors watches actors
I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me. Jennifer Beals
editors trying pitching
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up. Jim Crace
editors good-relationship actors
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen. Howard Shore
editors letters journalist
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield. Howard Rheingold
editors names watches
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. Israel Zangwill
editors way tvs
I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV. Indira Varma
editors directors depends
I depend on good editors and a good director. Indira Varma
editors stuff waiting
But usually you're waiting around for these editors to do stuff and you get really bored. It was better for them to wait for me! Phillip Noyce
editors judgments newspaper producers scripts tv
They will have to think through their scripts and make their own judgments just as newspaper editors and TV producers do.
editors complaining pakistan
If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman. Lynsey Addario
editors critics sympathetic
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Joyce Carol Oates
editors keys doubt
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film. Peter Greenaway
editors adore exception
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception. Linda Sue Park
editors crime dullness
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. Josephus Daniels
editors doubt when-in-doubt
When in doubt, delete it. Phil Crosby
editors looks cases
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. Piers Anthony
editors issues interesting
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. Graydon Carter
editors information lawyer
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. Graydon Carter
editors video stuff
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new. Justin Bieber
editors people knows
Not too many people know who the editor is. Julius Schwartz