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I can't rewrite history.
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.
When I write something, I constantly rewrite.
I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.
I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.
I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.
I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.
With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they're too big to fail.
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
It was amazing to remake and rewrite a song like 'Sweet Like Chocolate.' It feels like a good way to come back.
I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.
It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.
I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.
Filming 'The Drew,' thinking a lot about story arcs and all that stuff, I thought about how my career ended. I decided I wanted to try to rewrite that.
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite history.
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.
My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.