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“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.”

Ifs Way Years Firsts Film Cutting Seeing Conversation Machines Finals If I Could Editing Edited Old Ways Avid

Author:Walter Murch

“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.”

Firsts Done Left Stuff Sides Cutting Huge Taxes Accidents Combination Bags Deficit Really Cool Tax Cuts Pentagon Deluded

Author:Thomas Frank

“My wife is the host of Big Brother. Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, "Da da da,* but first* we do this." So they mashed together her saying "but first" a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.”

Firsts Different Bigs Together Names Cutting Wife Brother Couple My Wife Host Dozen Outfits

Author:Leslie Moonves

“When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.”

Firsts Wanted Stuff Cutting Eggs Dvds

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Firsts Doe Character Courses Stuff Cutting Special Color Normal Scripts Suits Ties Hats Ingredients Assets Costumes Cement Blah Wearing A Suit

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.”

Firsts Hard Cutting Habit Stones Adamant

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.”

Firsts May Bits Process Cutting Stage Paper Draws Paint Spontaneous Collages

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”

Firsts Seems Church Wonder Lord Cutting Tree Down And Hills Temples Cathedrals Grove Tree Of Life Incense Forests And Trees Arbor Day Inspirational Tree Olive Trees

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?”

Ifs Firsts Fire Cutting Burning Fuel Ignite Inferno

Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.”

“Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.”

Thinking Firsts Persons I Can Home Today Together Creativity Creative Cutting Generations Type Internet Aspect Blow Online Great Times Get Together This Generation Laptops

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.”

World Firsts Different Reality Action Order Cutting Magic Objects Unity Myth Contrary Oppression Links Oppressed Unjust Cords Umbilical Cord

Author:Paulo Freire

“Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.”

“But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!”

Men Firsts Age Names Cutting He Man Rounds Loud Curse Rising Stations Artificial Blast Rascals

Book:The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe

Source: The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe

“Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.”

Writing Firsts Care Too Much Cutting Masters Products Fine Finished Appeals Sparks Sincerity Blades Leather Cursing Anvils Aprons Blacksmiths Horseshoes

Author:Robertson Davies

“I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.”

Way Firsts Happens Cutting Blood

Author:Marina Abramovic

“A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).”

“I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.”

Firsts Mean Littles Wanted Bits Behinds Saws Cutting Little Bit Understood Yesterday Make Sense Reasoning

Author:Brandon Routh

“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'”

People Knows Firsts I Can Three Hours Half Saws Comedy Cutting Minutes Fronts First Time Twenties Wow Half Hours

Author:Ben Stiller

“Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.”

Firsts Watches Cutting Hot Dollars Golf Sugar Wrists Playing Golf Hotter Sugar Cane Wrist Watches

Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?”

“Maybe it's not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it's the very presence of one thing - light or darkness - that necessitates the existence of the other. Think about it, people couldn't become legendary heroes if they hadn't first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if there weren't diseases for them to treat.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Done Light Existence Darkness Clear Cutting One Thing Hero Disease Doctors Treats Combat Legendary

Book:Embrace

Source: Embrace

“The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.”

Firsts Used Cutting Hair Foundation Reports Rome Emperor Razors Augustus Evermore Barbers

Author:Pliny the Elder

“It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.”

Men Firsts Lasts Humanity Silence Gone Path Cutting He Man Broken Solitude Ice Streams Leap Silence Is Frozen Social Change Pioneers Swimmer

Book:Woman and Labor

Source: Woman and Labor

“I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.”

Should Writing Firsts Age Novel Cutting Childhood Materials Twenties Valuable Teeth Crafts Fifty Sixty Autobiography Twenty One Youngsters

Author:Laura Z. Hobson

“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.”

Way Firsts Kids School Fun Stuff Cutting Wife Dad First Time My Dad My Wife Cooks Makers Italian Knives Sauce Old School Pasta Homemade Noodles Italian Food Meatballs My Wife And Kids

Author:Joey Fatone

“Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.”

Firsts Important Kids School Realizing Cutting Music Is Program

Author:Steven Tyler

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.”

Firsts Book Running Turns Hell Cutting Hair Shapes Thirds Down And Blow Noses Combs Knobs

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends.”

Firsts Seems Guy Cutting Couple My Friends Trade Sorry I'm Sorry Abu Ghraib

Author:Dennis Miller

“...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where--' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read'... This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves. Next, and this is the most amazing part, they use a demeaning tone like I'm the stupid one for wasting time with books.”

People Knows Firsts Book Different Enough Use Next Levels Talking Cutting Growing Stupid Tragedy Tone Wasting Time Items Files Caps Most Amazing Different Levels Demeaning Dunces

Author:Tim Dorsey

“If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?”

Ifs Firsts Novel Cutting Pages Size Bookstores

Author:Brian Helgeland

“My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.”

Firsts Cutting Instruments Boxes Wire Cigar Banjos Peg

Author:Carl Sandburg

“It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.”

Way Firsts Speak Watches Clear Cutting Yeah Crystals Assembly Halt Slowing

Author:Todd Phillips

“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.”

“Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.”

Firsts States Government Community Steps Cutting Citizens Management Sake Financial Budgets First Steps Sounder

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.”

Firsts Wells Stills Form Effort Cutting Be Good Journalism Rough Relevant Printed Good Journalism

Author:Lionel Barber

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.”

Firsts School Cutting Theory

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Enough Helping Can Do Realizing Pleasure Careers Too Much Cutting Materials Relax

Author:Ramsey Campbell

“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."”

Thinking Firsts Might Stuff Loses Five Cutting Minutes Directors Gains Studios Release Five Minutes Suggesting

Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

“Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.”

Trying Firsts Two Hours Levels Cutting Projects Teeth Features Kink

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.”

People Years Firsts Two Wanted Certain Sound Black Natural Dark Careers Cutting Color Hair Clothes Red Lips Communicate Labels Two Years Restraint Lipstick Hair Dye

Author:Rihanna

“As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.”

Firsts I Can Play Care Used Grows Growing Up Cutting Grew Grew Up Lows Nba Flip Ankles Back In The Day Sandals Flip Flops

Author:Rajon Rondo

“I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood.”

Firsts Real Pieces Cutting Design Band Hollywood Drawing Endeavor Clothings Costumes Sewing

Author:Ashley Purdy

“I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.”

People Firsts Two Book Enough Three Cutting Presses Glad Chapters Had Enough

Author:Donald Miller

“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Sometimes Play Together Reading Actors Records Cutting Doors Stage Scripts Don't Trust Stage Directions

Author:Al Pacino

“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.”

Needs Firsts Reality Situation Records Cutting Middle Tables Lays Pops Organs Surgery Rip Anesthetics

Author:Gerard Way

“The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.”

Firsts I Can Book Play Today Remember Heaven Easy Black Cutting Seeing Creatures Radio Hearing Tales Teeth Comic Rays Mars Comic Book Bradbury Radio Plays Lagoons

Author:Stephen King

“The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.”

Firsts Art Two Ideas Might Together Grows Half Pieces Four Cutting Tree Strange Seeds Apples Pears

Author:Yoko Ono

“When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.”

Years Firsts Children Littles Film Order Steps Cutting My Friends Red Glasses Boxes Eight Cinema First Steps Discs

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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