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• Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

  Saffron Burrows

  Home, Thinking, Location

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• I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Writing, Sleep

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• The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, School, Years

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• I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, School, Sunday

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• By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

  John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

  Giving, Principles, May

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• As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

  George Blake

  Korea, Kgb, Trying

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• Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

  Frederick Seidel

  Pieces, Lasts, Sometimes

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• When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Book, Years, Obsession

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  William Labov

  Country, America, Europe

  "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Writing, Fog, Orchestra

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• There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Too Much, Brilliant

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• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Reading, Squares

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• A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Humor

  Treadmill to Oblivion pt. 2 (1954)

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• The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Thinking, Long, Imagination

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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• Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, Evening, Canvas

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• A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

  Gottlob Frege

  Math, Giving, Foundation

  Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.

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• I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Righteousness, Performances

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• There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

  Johnny Vegas

  Jobs, Couple, Phones

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Stories, Dredging, Novel

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• In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

  Alain Prost

  Three, Four

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.

  Joe Biden

  Grieving, Justice, Care

  "US - Syria air strikes still possible". Interview with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. September 4, 2014.

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• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

  John Lennon

  Long, Pieces, One Piece

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.333, Omnibus Press

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beauty, Art, Simple

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