Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you're frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 3, 1940

Topics

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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez

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What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

John Lurie

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I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

Max Martin

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It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

Anish Kapoor

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In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

Jeff Buckley

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If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

Sienna Miller

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison

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My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free... just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life.

Ruby Rose

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Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.

Jason Calacanis

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On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

Bruce Forsyth

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If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

Antony Johnston

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