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• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  Scott Putesky

  Song, Albums, Four

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• I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

  Stephen Sprouse

  School, Rhode Island, Islands

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• I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

  Sophie Thompson

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.

  John M. Tyler

  Nature, Science, Brain

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

  David Berg

  School, Next, Life Is

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• You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Directors, Green

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.

  Carey Mulligan

  Wall, Years, October

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• Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Language, Speak

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.212

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• A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

  James Whistler

  Mean, Finishing, Used

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

  James Whistler

  Sweat, Effort, Masters

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Vision, Way

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• The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

  John Updike

  Book, Errors, Lasts

  John Updike (2013). “More Matter: Essays And Criticism”, p.866, Penguin UK

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• I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

  John Updike

  Finishing, Bears, Painting

  John Updike (2006). “The Coup”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Shadow, Would Be

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Color

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Color, Tiny, Use

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

  Henri Matisse

  Bored, Mind, Finishing

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

  Edgar Degas

  Real, Communication, Half

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• Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

  Paul Gauguin

  Done, World, Littles

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

  John Berger

  Reality, Finishing, Impossible

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Arrogant, Canvas

  Claude Monet (1983). “Claude Monet at the time of Giverny”

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• I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Impossible, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Book, Writing, Suffering

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