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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.
I was fortunate enough to do a docu-series throughout the draft process, but I did that to show the behind-the-scenes stuff.
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
When I finish my first draft I usually narrate it to some trusted friends who can give me feedback. All criticism is welcome.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
Like any year, any year with any team, you're always going to look to the draft to help strengthen your roster and free agency.
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.
There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft.
When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.
If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.
When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.
Whenever you're coming out in the same draft class with anybody, you're going to be compared to them, but I'm not super worried about that.
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.
Lawmakers should focus on building strong coalitions, including across the aisle, as they create, draft, and develop effective legislation.
I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.
The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.
I want to stay with the Tennessee Titans. They are the ones that took a chance on me - 31 teams passed on me on the draft and they selected me.
The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?
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.
You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.
Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.
It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.
Cleveland was the only visit I made. I had a good feeling they were going to draft me, but I was still shocked when they jumped up to the second round.
When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
I didn't care about the draft. I didn't want to do the workouts - they put you in two-on-two full-court drills with guards. That's not going to help me.
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
I have plans of becoming a director soon. I just finished my script. I don't know when I'll direct the film. It is ready and has reached its third draft.
Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.