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• Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

  Henry Winkler

  Fun, Acting, Three

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• Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

  Gene Wolfe

  Doubt, Stories, Ambiguity

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• When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans.

  Ally McCoist

  Feelings, Fans, Celtic

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• ...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Falling In Love, Color, Mind

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• There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Important, Gone

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• Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

  Larry Wall

  Memories, Use, Hey

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• I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

  Lisa Gardner

  Strong, Character, Thinking

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• In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

  Peter Straub

  Cities, Wings, Quality

  FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Nov 19, 2015

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• When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Attitude, Suffering, Violence

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Friendship, Moving On, Thinking

  Harper's BAZAAR Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. September 3, 2009.

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• Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

  Charles Stross

  Mean, Use, Way

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• The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reality, Broken, Life Is

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• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  Dan Chaon

  Stories, World, Kind

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

  A. S. Byatt

  Falling In Love, Desire, Plot

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• Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again.

  Jon Stewart

  Campaigns, Opening

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• There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

  Penelope Lively

  Fashion, Believe, People

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin

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• Fans want to make sure that they see things resolved, they want to get some closure, a great ending. I think they're going to get that.

  Casey Hudson

  Thinking, Fans, Want

  "Casey Hudson: BioWare co-created Mass Effect 3 with the (sometimes cranky) fans (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. March 2, 2012.

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• You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

  John Scalzi

  Feel Better, People, Giving

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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• The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Optimistic, Character, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Next Day, Bed, Online

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• It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

  John Burdett

  Safety, Imagination, Finals

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• Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

  Joe Biden

  America, Expansion, Reason

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• Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

  Hugh Howey

  Sometimes, Found, Needed

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.549, Random House

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• Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Controversial, Requiem

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