#drafts

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that. ↗

— Steve Burns

#animation #different #done #drafts #each

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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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. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy. ↗

— James Meade

#discussions #drafts #employment #government #governmental

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. ↗

— John Irving

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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. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#baggage #chance #character #coaches #dictated

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at. ↗

— Robert Caro

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