Phil Graham famous quotes

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The first rough draft of history.
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

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