Shortening a title sequence

I know this is a dumb question, but how do you shorten a title sequence without keeping all the elements. For example, if you use the "winners cricle" title, there are 5 text lines. I only want to use 2 out of the 5, so how do I delete the other 3? I tried all basic thoughts like the razor blade and trim tool, but all it does is shorten then length of the title, but keep all 5 lines of text. Even if I delete the text, it will just effect to a blank page and keep all 5 lines of text. Help! Thanks!

Select the title clip in the timeline and place the playhead so you can see the text you want to remove. Double click the text in the viewer and use the delete key on your keyboard to remove it or select the title tab in the inspector and highlight the text to be removed and again use the delete key. Once you unselect the title in the timeline the bounding box around the empty text box will disappear. You can trim the title clip to whatever length you want to set the length of time it will be displayed.

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Dag,
Now back when I was in film school, Marshall McLuhan had just published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man a couple of years before. It was required reading.
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