imjustagirl2
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I record everything I'm there for. I go back and double check. I'll hit index on my recorder when I know it's something I'll use, and it takes me 40 seconds to go back and double check it.
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imjustagirl said:I record everything I'm there for. I go back and double check. I'll hit index on my recorder when I know it's something I'll use, and it takes me 40 seconds to go back and double check it.
daemon said:I heard a sports editor tell a story once about Mark Bowden. Back in the day, he covered the Eagles for one of the Philly papers. Early in Jerome Brown's career, Bowden used to quote him exactly as he talked which, for those who knew JB, wasn't exactly proper English.
Well, Brown confronted Bowden one day and said, "Why are you trying to make me look stupid?"
Bowden had never considered the thought, and from that point on, did his best to clean up Brown's quotes.
That might not be exactly how the story goes, but the spirit of it is correct.
imjustagirl said:Well I'm sorry if those are your best quotes.
There have been plenty of times when I've gotten a great quote at its core, but I just couldn't make it work. So I didn't use it. I'm not willing to change a quote just because it's catchy.
Exactly.. try talking to a 16-year-old kid who has a stream-of-unconsciousness streak that Benito Santiago would envy, chew no?Mizzougrad96 said:Fenian_Bastard said:Don't edit quotes for grammatical purposes. For whatever reason, but especially not for those given by Howard.
Period.
End of forking story.
You know it's not that simple... We would like to think it is, but it's not...
spnited said:imjustagirl said:Well I'm sorry if those are your best quotes.
There have been plenty of times when I've gotten a great quote at its core, but I just couldn't make it work. So I didn't use it. I'm not willing to change a quote just because it's catchy.
What does that mean? If it's a great quote, why would you not find a way to use it?