Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.

Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.

I tend to write some, then outline some, then delete some, then go back and rewrite some. I love revising and hate first drafts. I have to wear bedroom slippers. My current favorites come from the Zetter Hotel in London. They have little tobacco pipes on the toes.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.

When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you.

A lot of people see the highs but not the lows. But I've always believed in my ability and that's why I got through my rough patch.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

Everyone can have a rough day at the office, as they say. I've had those myself many times when the bell rings.

When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

I don't care if I'm drafted one, five, 72, or last pick. I'm going to come in with my head low, ready to work, and that is not going to change me. That's why, whatever team drafts me, you're going to get the same person, the guy that is going to be a competitor, a guy that is passionate about the game.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

I am not a very rough and tough kind of a girl, rather a little sensitive. I believe in unicorns, dreams and dolls.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

My father had a shoe factory in a depressed and rough area of New York City called Williamsburg.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.