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Risk takes on a lot of different forms, be it financial, the draft slot, something physical.
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.
When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.
There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.
Honestly I'm excited for whatever team wants to draft me, and I'm excited to make an impact right away.
When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
I love the draft process. I love the regular season. I love preparing for the games. I just love football.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.
I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.
I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.
If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
In high school, I told my trainer Keith I wanted to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick.
Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.
I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.
I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.
I have watched the NBA draft just about every year, so to see myself up there, that is something I am excited about.
You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
I was called fool's gold. That's what I was called in the draft combine. That's how I remember it. I took it personal.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
You can't just hope you draft well and not go after free agents and you end up in the Super Bowl. You got to go get it.
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.
Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time, does it really matter?
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
I fell asleep during the draft, actually. I woke up, and I was picked No. 48. I didn't even know what number I was picked.