Finals Quotes - Page 11

• A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Cutting, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

  Clemence Poesy

  Dad, Sneak In, Tennis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

  Bill Walsh

  Trying, Pixels, Lists

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  Rich Sommer

  Zero, Men, Mad

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• The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

  R. C. Sproul

  Views, Choices, Decision

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• For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

  Steven J Lawson

  Wrath, Perfect, Justice

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• The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  People, Dying, Way

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• While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Goal, Entrepreneur, Needs

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

  Terence McKenna

  Singularity, Series, Approximation

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• Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

  Lewis Mumford

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

  William Weld

  Giving, Evening, Final Words

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• Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Punishment, Forgiving, Way

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So, I had not seen it in about two years. They went off and started shooting, and I saw it all put together with almost the final sound mix and it was remarkable. I was so, so happy and relieved, not in the sense that I thought something had gone wrong, but you just don't know what something is going to be like until you see it put together. Everyone stepped up and brought their A+ game.

  John August

  Years, Games, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

  Brit Marling

  Writing, Play, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.

  Stephen Karam

  Baby, Play, Advice

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

  Stephen Karam

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

  Max Lucado

  Choices, Steps, Thousand

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• I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.

  Andy Cohen

  Falling In Love, Pieces, Very Happy

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• The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophy, Ontology

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• My final destination is my complete knowledge of God.

  Kedar Joshi

  Knowledge Of God, Destination, Final Destination

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• The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Greatness, Tests

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• The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

  Albert Einstein

  Blessing, Thinking, Temptation

  "Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'". Book by John Stachel, p. 5, 2001.

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• Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

  Dennis Miller

  Answers, Want, Situation

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• I'd like to do one of those jumps they do in the movies; in a car, over a bridge, in the air with a huge explosion. It would be a final moment of entertainment.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Air, Bridges, Car

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• The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.

  Robert Adams

  Depressing, Light, Perspective

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