Finished Quotes - Page 3

• A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

  Brenda Laurel

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

  Anthony Storr

  Depression, Men, Odds

  Anthony Storr (1990). “Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind”

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• When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Jobs, School, Agency

  "Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

  Norma Shearer

  Ifs

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

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• Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

  Angelina Jolie

  Stories, Happy Endings, Havens

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• If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget
  That God isn't finished with me yet.
  I feel His hand on my brain...
  When I write rhymes, I go blind and let the Lord do His thang.

  Tupac Shakur

  Stress, Rap, Writing

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• You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

  Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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• I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Moving, Thinking, Light

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• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  College, Ability, Feels

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• If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

  Ian Fleming

  Book, Writing, Self

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• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

  Alain Prost

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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

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• The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Myth

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• A lot of films come out before they're finished.

  Ed Harris

  Film

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• It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Believe, Long, People

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• I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realized... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

  Claire Foy

  Drama, School, Thinking

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

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• We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

  Peter O'Toole

  Hard Work, Thinking, Voice

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• Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

  Vu Tran

  Writing, Sometimes, Knows

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• A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

  Pablo Picasso

  Mind, Done, Goes On

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• A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Ballet, Fine

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• The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

  L. Bruce Archer

  Design, Calling, Done

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• At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

  Andres Nocioni

  Home, Reality, Problem

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• Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Art, Book, Perfect

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• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  Francis Drake

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Yield

  Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

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• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

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

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• If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Doe, Looks

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