#raf

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

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

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. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#age #also #came #comedy #concept

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. ↗

— Len Wein

#begin #between #changes #difference #draft

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#actually #belief #believe #between #books

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. ↗

— Wayne White

#because #deadline #draft #essentially #hell

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#long #mind #priestcraft #public #public mind

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#craft #into #learning #like #people

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bent #dance #had #i #knees

I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#george #i #john #life #mind