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Draft beer, not people. -- Bob Dylan
Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%... -- Stephen King
We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. -- Ray Davies
Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%. -- Stephen King
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management. -- Kyrie Irving
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR. -- Ashley Purdy
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way. -- William Friedkin
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die. -- Katherine Anne Porter
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I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft. -- Bill Hader
A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.' -- Jimmy Fallon
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. -- H. G. Wells
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. -- Colm Toibin
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. -- Jimmy Fallon
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. -- Jim Lehrer
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. -- Jesse Ventura
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying. -- Patricia Schroeder
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. -- Lydia Davis
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes. -- Jeremy Lin
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. -- Thomas Lennon
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. -- Nicholas Sparks
I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts. -- Jeremy Lin
My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness. -- Phil Jackson
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. -- Daphne Zuniga
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace. -- Al Franken
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. -- Noam Chomsky
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. -- Margaret Atwood
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. -- Harlan Coben
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Edwin Starr
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. -- George Stephen
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. -- J. C. Watts
If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play. -- Justin Tuck
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon. -- Julia Glass
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. -- Bob Schieffer
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. -- Colm Toibin
The first rough draft of history. -- Ben Bradlee
Don't stop with your first draft. -- P. J. Plauger
Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey Ward
Journalism is the first draft of history -- Phil Graham
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. -- Elizabeth Drew
News is the first draft of history. -- Ben Bradlee
I am a product of the draft. -- James Inhofe
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. -- Erin Morgenstern
If you draft me, you'll never regret it. -- Kwame Brown
This life isn't bad for a first draft. -- Joan Konner
[News is] a first rough draft of history. -- Phil Graham
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite. -- George Bernard Shaw
The first draft of anything is sh*t. -- Ernest Hemingway
I've never shown anybody a draft of anything. -- Shelby Foote
Journalism is the first rough draft of history -- Donald E. Graham
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft. -- Monique Wittig
I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order. -- Henrik Zetterberg
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft. -- John Ciardi
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft... -- Will Self
A careful first draft is a failed first draft -- Patricia Hampl
News is only the first rough draft of history. -- Alan Barth
The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. -- Bruce Coville
There is no such thing as a publishable first draft. -- William Targ
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. -- George Wald
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. -- Terry Pratchett
I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics. -- Daniel Ellsberg
When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree. -- Jimmy Buffett
A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft. -- Josh Howard
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. -- Joe Bob Briggs
They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline. -- Torrey Smith
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. -- Frank Deford
Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture. -- Michael Gartner
Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education. -- Cardale Jones
Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous. -- Wally Lamb
In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010. -- Michael E. Mann
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. -- Aprilynne Pike
I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX. -- John Landgraf
I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft. -- George W. Bush
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. -- Nora Roberts
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. -- Nora Roberts
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. -- Dag Hammarskjold
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. -- James A. Michener
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers. -- Joe Conason
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. -- W. G. Sebald
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. -- Jane Smiley
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. -- William Faulkner
The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written! -- Heather Robinson
Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath. -- Richard Flanagan
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging. -- Gore Vidal
I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week. -- George Stephen
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. -- Ambrose Bierce
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment. -- Rebecca Stead
Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU! -- Keith Olbermann
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. -- Will Shetterly
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. -- Stephen Colbert
The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. -- John Dufresne
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. -- Chaim Potok
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. -- Guy Garvey
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. -- Martin Amis
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. -- Matt Lauer
City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script. -- Kevin Barry
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it. -- Jonathan Dee
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body -- Thomas Hobbes
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. -- Joyce Carol Oates
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me. -- Jack Youngblood
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable. -- Mario Cuomo
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. -- Dean Koontz
The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. -- Jeff Landry
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. -- Stephen Collins
People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. -- Alain de Botton
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. -- Rumer Godden
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. -- John Irving
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. -- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. -- Robert Bloch
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. -- Maureen Dowd
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. -- Jane Smiley
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. -- Jonathan Stroud
Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace. -- Edwin Catmull
I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can? -- Rebecca West
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. -- Boris Pasternak
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. -- James Rado

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