Anil Dash Quotes
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
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When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
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The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.
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Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
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Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
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Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.
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It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
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Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
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If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.
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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
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The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
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I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
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I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.
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The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.
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Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.
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If riding the bus or the subway doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.
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There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
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It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.
