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Quotes About Rewrite

Perfect. Another B-movie dream sequence to start the day. Why can't I ever win in these things? Instead, it's always some Jacob's Ladder outtake, and I want to talk to the director because the script needs a rewrite.
~ Richard Kadrey
Movements seeking to change the world often begin by rewriting history, thereby enabling people to reimagine the future.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
~ Eric S. Raymond
Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite history.
~ Jeff Van Drew
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
~ Jean Monnet
I am not sleeping with him." I shot him a poisonous glare. "If I had a bumper sticker, it would read, 'Demon slayer, not demon layer.' " "Your mouth says no, but your cleavage says yes.
~ Rob Thurman
Don't comment bad code—rewrite it." —Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plaugher1
~ Robert C. Martin
We have learned the rules so well that we can now be the ones to break or rewrite them.
~ Robert Greene
Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
~ Tamora Pierce
Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.
~ Robert McKee
If he could rewrite the day, his life would be the way it always had been, and his future would be as he had planned. But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.
~ Jill Fredston
If we constantly rewrite history to fit how we see things now, we forget how things used to be and, equally important to future scholars, how we used to see them.
~ Anne Summers
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.
~ Brian Kernighan
You're awfully good at sizing people up.' Amory denied this painfully. However, he sized up several people for her. Then they talked about hands. 'You've got awfully nice hands,' she said.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.
~ Akhil Sharma
I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.
~ William H. Macy
I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it's distressing, because I'd like the play to be out there in its finished form.
~ Horton Foote
Es imposible hacer una película sin reescribir totalmente la historia.
~ Andy Warhol
I think we — well, I — messed up the story.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.
~ Elif Batuman
It's easier to rewrite anything, even the worst writing ever, than to write something for the first time.
~ Antony Johnston
Tax reform likely will be the first policy action in a Trump administration. A close second will be a thorough repeal and rewrite of Obamacare, restoring a freer market with true consumer choice and competition among providers.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
That voice you hear in your head, the one whispering that you need to add some comments, may just be your program crying out to be rewritten.
~ Russ Olsen
Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon