Top 812 Draft Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.
It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.
In high school, I told my trainer Keith I wanted to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick.
I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
I was fortunate enough to do a docu-series throughout the draft process, but I did that to show the behind-the-scenes stuff.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.
Risk takes on a lot of different forms, be it financial, the draft slot, something physical.
I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can.
The main reason why I would even potentially go to the NFL Draft is for my family.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.
Sometimes, obviously it's an incentive to tank if you have the opportunity to get those high draft picks.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
I think as you're approaching Draft day, you're thinking about all of the possibilities, and you know that's one way you can improve your club.
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
When I finish my first draft I usually narrate it to some trusted friends who can give me feedback. All criticism is welcome.
Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.
Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.
Coming out as a rookie, no. 4 draft pick, you expected to see some playing time.
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
If you had first pick in the all-free agent NBA draft, you'd take LeBron James.
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.
I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.
