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For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books. -- Jack Canfield
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. -- Ambrose Bierce
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. -- Terry Gross
People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited. -- Andre Leon Talley
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. -- Mel Brooks
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way. -- Dick Cavett
The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. -- Jarvis Cocker
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
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again. -- Albert Murray
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
It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way. -- Jack Falahee
Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America. -- Pete Townshend
Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam. -- Ryan Holmes
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. -- Tom Robbins
So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together. -- Brooke Burke
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. -- Bill Griffith
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters. -- Stieg Larsson
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
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. -- James Wolcott
It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be. -- Bertie Carvel
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
When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year. -- Jack Canfield
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
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished. -- Taslima Nasrin
You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited. -- Albert Brooks
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps. -- Matthew McConaughey
I love the edited version of it. -- Terry Gross
Edit your author as you would be edited. -- Barbara Sjoholm
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. -- Ambrose Bierce
Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos. -- Richard King
I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems. -- Victoria Chang
The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated -- George Bird Grinnell
I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children. -- Mark Twain
I found that life has to be edited to continue. -- Tracey Emin
Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine. -- Margaret Atwood
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will. -- Fran Lebowitz
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written]. -- Nat Hentoff
In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality. -- Mal Fletcher
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think. -- Malachy McCourt
The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted. -- Wiz Khalifa
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting. -- Neil Drumming
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. -- Russell Lynes
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences. -- Doc Brown
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. -- William Monahan
If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough. -- S. Kelley Harrell
After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me. -- Mark Twain
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance. -- Nolan Bushnell
When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical. -- William Monahan
Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone. -- Emily Giffin
I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok. -- Lorde
The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited. -- Kim Smith
It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. -- Brene Brown
It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. -- Brene Brown
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer. -- James Franco
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
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing. -- K. M. Soehnlein
All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister. -- John Searles
With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file. -- DJ Spooky
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
Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story. -- Regina Doman
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology. -- Terry Southern
I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years. -- Michael Moore
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. -- Ambrose Bierce
I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life. -- Virginia Postrel
I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references. -- Stephen Mallinder
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious. -- Jodhi May
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard. -- Charlie Hunter
Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I never read anything about it, I never think about it. -- Woody Allen
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
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. -- Guy Kawasaki

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