Step Edit Quotes & Sayings

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing. — John Prine

All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands. — Eric Ludy

Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say, 'Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth. — Michael J. Jackson

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk. — James Crumley

After a couple of rehearsals and a couple of takes, Sydney Pollack says, "Come here. Why are you not nervous?" And I [say], "Do you think it would be better if I was nervous?" And he says, "No, it's just I can't understand it - how you would be first time on a set, you're acting, when he flubs his line you make up a new line. It's very interesting." It's not that I think I'm great; that's what I knew I wanted to do. — Geena Davis

It's sad how people change from the best to the beast. — Geneva Caballero Uy

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. — Bill Forsyth

Yeah, alright."
Anything to end this conversation about her father's breast. — Tracey Ward

Make room for the Lord in your homes and in your hearts, and He will be your companion. He will be by your side. — Thomas S. Monson

During my film career, I have received love and affection from Indian cinegoers. I have received unconditional love from them. — Dilip Kumar

Outside of muttering his way through Sunday service, Aaron had not voiced a conscious prayer in more than ten years. He supposed it wouldn't help his chances in the hereafter if he returned to the fold with Saints preserve me from premature ejaculation. No matter how sincerely uttered. — Tessa Dare

What had he done? Something horrible, something terrible, but something he'd done as a child. Can you commit murder in innocence? It's too big a thing for the human mind to take in, that's the problem. And it grew with the ever-larger newspaper pictures of a girl who was near enough an angel, even before she died. Only the young die good. And Angela Milton died young enough to be perfect. — Jonathan Trigell

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do. — Ian McKellen

People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. — Roger Scruton

Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon. — Lynne Truss

Ws 11:17 That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. — Various