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• One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Business, Oil, Revolution

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• I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Talking, Machines

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• I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

  Michael Cunningham

  Way, Firsts, Language

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• When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

  Matthew William Goode

  Expectations, Film, Exceed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

  Steven Gerrard

  Coaching, England, Break

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

  Lena Headey

  Jobs, Thinking, Car

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• I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Play, Age

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

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• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

  Lee Hall

  Wall, Thinking, Play

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• I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

  Chanel Iman

  Party, Work Out, Yeah

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• I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Reading, Writing, Wife

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• When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

  Ken Jeong

  Night, New Orleans, Doctors

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

  Kerry King

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, School, Thinking

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  School, College, America

  "Five Questions with Hollywood Rookie Dayo Okeniyi on 'The Hunger Games'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

  Tom Petty

  Tattoo, Education, School

  Song: Into the Great Wide Open

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• I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

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• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

  Jacques Pepin

  Kitchen, President, Nehru

  "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Race, World, Lasts

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• When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

  Mike Rutherford

  Thinking, Next, Projects

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• The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  Taiye Selasi

  Summer, Ghana, West

  "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots" by Taiye Selasi, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  Taiye Selasi

  Emotional, Long, Flow

  "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

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• I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

  Devon Sawa

  School, Six Months, Hung

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

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• We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

  Donna Shalala

  Country, Growing Up, School

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• Nature is never finished.

  Robert Smithson

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Sculpture, Architecture

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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