Finished Quotes - Page 16

• The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

  Allen Tate

  Real, May, Critics

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Architecture, Prophecy, Tombs

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

  John Drinkwater

  Song, Art, Connections

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, People, Giving

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• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Identity, Doe

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

  Arthur Bloch

  Adversity, Needs, Tools

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Penguin

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• I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Stars, Reality, Illustration

  "Mary Ellen Mark on photography". Interview with D.K. Row, www.oregonlive.com. August 12, 2010.

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• The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.

  Nancy Kress

  Eye, Writing, Thinking

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• ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

  Walter Mosley

  Song, Book, Love You

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• I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Different, Kind, Different Kinds

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• There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

  Christian Bale

  Numbers, Months, Wanted

  "Dark Star", www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2005.

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• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

  Dario Argento

  Mind, Film, Made

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• It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

  Robert Pozen

  Reading, Home, Reality

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• I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Years, Play, Three

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• We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

  Paul Bremer

  Iraq, Alive, Thrown

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• A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Beautiful, Stories, Proof

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• Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Elements, Pieces, Too Much

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• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  Patrick Carney

  People, Band, Records

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• When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

  John Corbett

  Thinking, Auditions, Six

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• Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

  Charlie Daniels

  College, Years, Games

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• Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

  Dom DeLuise

  Song, Men, White

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• I was deliciously happy filming True Blood. I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow.

  Michelle Forbes

  Blood, Office, Scripts

  "The Killing star Michelle Forbes: why I avoided watching Forbrydelsen". Interview with Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.

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• Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Eye, People

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Fall, Perfect

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

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