Kenneth Atchity quotes

“You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses.”
-- Kenneth Atchity

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“Suspect all your favorite sentences.”
-- Kenneth Atchity

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“Suspect all of your favorite sentences.”
-- Kenneth Atchity

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“Bad spellers of the world untie!”

“Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.”

“The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.”

Source : "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

“Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.”

“If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.”

“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”

“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

“To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 26, 2015

“So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.”

“The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.”