Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

You’re like a gift,” he said, his voice rough. “All wrapped up for someone else. A man can’t look at you, but think of loosing those bows, one by one.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.

Every fight has its rough spots, and I'm always looking for improve every facet.

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

I guess I'm a romantic. Call me rough and romantic. Girls like that.

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I was three times AAU All-American World Champion and I had rough time. I was broke, no money and everything was bad for me until WWE.

Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty boy. That's how I got into boxing.

It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.

Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself!

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Everyone has kind of a rough transition in the NFL. It's a different kind of scouting.

You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say - even when I'm talking nicely - does sound a bit rough.

The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

I don't have maybe the typical fighter story of having to grow up rough. I grew up great.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.

The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.

Chicago is an extremely rough place to grow up in. Especially if you're the only brother on the block that's into bumpin' Alanis Morrisette... So 'You Oughta Know,' I moved to Oregon.

My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.