Quotes about honing (16 Quotes)


    We're honing the cast of 'American Morning' in order to focus on what the audience wants most and what CNN does best the latest news delivered with the greatest intelligence, ... In a morning television landscape littered with mindless entertainment, there will be one name you can rely on for no-nonsense news O'Brien.


    I sat down with Gerard and we brainstormed, and the children being stolen started coming in as a motif, so we started stealing some of the aesthetics from 'The City of Lost Children' sort of that surreal atmosphere. The Watchers and the resistance, that was always in my head, but it got more refined. Gerard was helping me get the details down so it would feel right. It came together after that. We just started honing it until it felt like it was all working.

    During shooting, I can remember two or three times when George would say, 'Just do it a little bit faster,' ... It was this invisible direction, the kind that tells you what you're doing is okay and, if not, he knows what he wants. You knew he was whittling and honing and crafting the scene as we were in it. Like Fred Friendly, he was managing the room.



    I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

    Some of the lyrics come from stream-of-consciousness, and I used to spend a long time honing them into a narrative afterwards. Now I'm fine with keeping things more mysterious. I just let the words and images come to me, rather than direct them. You just have to try not to get lazy, and avoid clichs. There are a lot of things you have to throw away.

    I think once I figured out where my groove was or my thing that everybody started honing in on what they could pitch me. I demoed a lot of great songs that I didn't cut, and some turned into big hits like 'Roundabout Way,' and 'Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo,' but they just didn't work for me.

    I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

    This is great research. We are honing in now on things people can measure to determine snow-pack stability. The more we can make tests like this (in the field) . . . the more likely we are to be able to predict avalanches.



    When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.



    For the past couple of games we haven't been honing in on our defensive skills. But it feels good to get that chemistry back and to get that defense back, because that's what our strength is.



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