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• When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Jesus, Night, Three

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Architecture

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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Persistence

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

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• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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• What has passed is already finished with.
  What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Interesting, Boast, Stills

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• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

  David Dinkins

  School, Law, Matter

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• I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

  David Dinkins

  Jobs, School, Law

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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 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 don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

  Jim Rogers

  Business, Moving, Thinking

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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 finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  Rachel Gibson

  Games, Zombie, Hunger

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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 don't remember ever having finished a book.

  Bridget Hall

  Book, Remember, Supermodel

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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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• It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.

  Ryan Hall

  Nice, Guy, Top 10

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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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• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Nashville, Three

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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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