"Editing is the same as quarreling with writers â€” same thing exactly."

-- Harold Ross

#Editing Quotes

“People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.”

Source : "Who needs a bit on the side?" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.
“I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didnâ€™t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.”
“Theology without love simply is very bad theology.”
“I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.”
“You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)”

Source : Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.149, Penguin
“I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.”
“We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.”

Source : "Approaching Integrity" by Mark Nepo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.
“It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.”

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