#raft

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#defeat #direct #direct experience #draft #end

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#craft #down #falling #front #i

I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#catch #cities #city #craft #diversity

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#craft #folly #mind #novel #screen

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#cannot #charge #community #craft #expression

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft. ↗

— Frank Langella

#craft #only #the only thing #then #thing

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. ↗

— Matt Lauer

#constitution #deadline #draft #failed #final

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctor #draft #during #early #fifties