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My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Author:
Jack Youngblood
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I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
Author:
Connie Willis
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We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.
Author:
Montel Williams
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
Author:
Wayne White
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Author:
H. Wells
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When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Author:
Len Wein
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Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Author:
Chris Wedge
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New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
Author:
George Wald
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I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.
Author:
Isaiah Thomas
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Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
Author:
Jalal Talabani
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The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.
Author:
Jacqueline Susann
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
Author:
Parker Stevenson
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I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.
Author:
George Stephen
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The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
Author:
George Stephen
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Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.
Author:
Edwin Starr
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Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
Author:
Jonathan Shapiro
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
Author:
Bob Schieffer
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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
Author:
John Sayles
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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
Author:
John Sayles
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
Author:
Ibrahim Rugova
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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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.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.
Author:
Paul Reiser
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
Author:
James Rado
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The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
Author:
Ludwig Quidde
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I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
Author:
Victoria Pratt
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I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.
Author:
Rick Pitino
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
Author:
Ed O'Neill
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Author:
Gary Miller
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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
Author:
Colleen McCullough
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Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
Author:
Colleen McCullough
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I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
Author:
Cheech Marin
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In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.
Author:
Michael Mann
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Author:
Maya Lin
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When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
Author:
Robert Lifton
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The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
Author:
Matt Lauer
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.
Author:
Diana Jones
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Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
Author:
Elfriede Jelinek
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One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
Author:
Ron Jaworski
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I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Author:
Michael Ignatieff
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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
Author:
Margaret Haddix
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Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.
Author:
Margaret Haddix
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I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
Author:
Kay Granger
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News is the first rough draft of history.
Author:
Philip Graham
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I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
Author:
Ken Follett
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
Author:
R. Ermey
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I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
Author:
Stephen Collins
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We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.
Author:
Roy Clark
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In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.
Author:
Rene Cassin
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Author:
Dana Carvey
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
Author:
Poppy Brite
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A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Author:
Joe Briggs
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Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
Author:
Bruce Boxleitner
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
Author:
John Barton
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No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Author:
Lynn Abbey
