Rough Drafts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

News is only the first rough draft of history.
-- Alan Barth

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There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.
-- Ari Graynor

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The first rough draft of history.
-- Ben Bradlee

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Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..
-- Geoffrey Hill

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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
-- Jane Smiley

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The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
-- Monique Wittig

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[News is] a first rough draft of history.
-- Phil Graham

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It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.
-- Lily King

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The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!
The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.
When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.