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• In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

  Roger Waters

  Moving, Important, Articles

  "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.

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• After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspiration, Path, Sometimes

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• I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

  Tracy Chapman

  Talking, Records

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• ...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.

  Alice Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Son

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• I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Jazz, Scholar

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• It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

  Terry Fox

  Hurt, Hands, People

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• I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple weeks, mainly as a different focus to touring. I didn't have any expectations or pressures with what would come out of those two weeks, and think 'Tough Love' sums this up. It was me experimenting with my voice and having fun with it. It just felt right and kind of dictated the route of the next album, much like 'Devotion' did on my first album

  Jessie Ware

  Running, Couple, Fun

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• Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

  Marguerite Henry

  Dream, Book, Character

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• I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

  Frank Auerbach

  Order, Rework, Recalls

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• Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Goal, Saint

  "The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery".

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• I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Fun, Reading, Book

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• By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Coffee, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.279, Random House

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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Holiday, Long, Celebrate Life

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• Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Growing Up, People, Generations

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• You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting finished yourself.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighter, Ends

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• Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

  David Fincher

  Abandoned

  "10 Things We Learned About David Fincher and ‘Gone Girl’ At Film Independent Event" by Zack Sharf, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2014.

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• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

  W. H. Auden

  Artist, Craftsman, Results

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Poet of the Actual"), (p. 265), 1973.

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• I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Men, Waiting

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• Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Ideas, Track

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, Penguin

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• We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

  T. D. Jakes

  Giving, Grace, Want

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• I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dying, Faces, Face To Face

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  William Segal

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Redemption, Creation

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• I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.

  Ben Whishaw

  Jobs, Struggle, Dark

  "Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' - interview". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Let It Go, Tvs

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