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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. -- Stephen Sondheim
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. -- Jules Shear
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously. -- Christopher McQuarrie
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. -- Bill Joy
We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun. -- Matt Stone
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. -- Elizabeth Warren
I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten. -- Matthew Weiner
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. -- Peter Stone
But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author. -- Edward Burns
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. -- Michael Crichton
I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a complete rewrite, but I didn't touch the dialogue. Essentially, I'm a very good editor. -- Frank Oz
There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now. -- Susan Powter
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten. -- Abdallah II
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten. -- Quincy Jones
In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were. -- Kenneth More
Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage. -- Terry Teachout
I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end. -- Luke Wilson
What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?' -- Peter Carey
You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone. -- Paul Weller
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were. -- Kenneth More
To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States. -- Kevin Bleyer
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
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.' -- Feist
If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. -- Katherine Harris
Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten -- R.C. Bannon
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten. -- Phyllis A. Whitney
Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten. -- Paul Engle
Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! -- Michael Crichton
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten. -- Phyllis A. Whitney
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. -- George Santayana
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. -- Peter Shaffer
It's funny how the history of Jeb Bush is going to be rewritten. -- Chuck Todd
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. -- Teju Cole
There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. -- Mike Huckabee
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. -- Piers Paul Read
The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank. -- Zig Ziglar
People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten. -- J. Oswald Sanders
In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread." -- Richard L. Evans
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth. -- William Vogt
Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith. -- Jeanette Winterson
In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed. -- Helen Keller
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten. -- Abdallah II
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated. -- Edward Said
I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me. -- Joe Budden

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