Finished Quotes - Page 18

• It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Writing, Mind, Study

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• What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

  Juno Temple

  Proud, Sometimes, Exciting

  "Sundance Q&A: Juno Temple Is Blowing Up". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

  Amy Waldman

  Powerful, Coffee, Writing

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• I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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• Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Thinking, Feelings

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• When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Quilts, Crazy

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• I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

  Allison Williams

  Fashion, Crazy, College

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• The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Firsts, Trilogies, Bayou

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• I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.

  Wanda Sykes

  Phones, Records, Problem

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• I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

  George R. R. Martin

  Numbers, Stories, Endless

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• Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Storm, World, Proud

  "Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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• I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

  Anthony Rizzo

  Believe, Player, Products

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• I only finished first grade.

  Amnat Ruenroeng

  Firsts, Grades

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• Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.

  George Cadle Price

  Progress, Earth, Dawn

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• I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

  Albert Gubay

  School, Age, Seven Days

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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