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• I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

  Christopher Eccleston

  Dream, Monday, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting finished yourself.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighter, Ends

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• Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

  David Fincher

  Abandoned

  "10 Things We Learned About David Fincher and ‘Gone Girl’ At Film Independent Event" by Zack Sharf, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2014.

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• I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

  Christopher Love

  Wages, Palaces, Prison

  Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications

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• I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

  Liz Phair

  Creativity, People, Creation

  "POP MUSC : Exile From Rockville : After her seductive debut album wowed critics, Liz Phair was poised for stardom. Then along came her second record, and anything seemed possible. But who knew that meant putting a career on hold? She knew". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 5, 1995.

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• Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

  Bill Johnson

  Devil, Refusal

  Bill Johnson (2012). “Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda”, p.77, Destiny Image Publishers

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• All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

  Lord Byron

  Funny Marriage, Tragedy, Comedy

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 9

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• My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

  James Thurber

  Ideas, Drawing, Arguing

  Life Magazine Interview, March 14, 1960.

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• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  Chris Lowe

  Play, People, Waiting

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• Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

  Pliny the Younger

  Artist, Finishing, Painting

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Distance, Years, Judging

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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• At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.

  Sebastian Junger

  Good Friend, People, Soldier

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.

  I. M. Pei

  Art, Years, Design

  Source: archtalks.com

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• Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

  Danny Boyle

  Watches, Way, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

  Bill Condon

  Writing, Pieces, Dues

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• [I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Numbers, Stupidity

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• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

  Mary McCarthy

  Incessant, Labor, Behinds

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Drama, Spring

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• Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

  Fred Brooks

  Abandoned, Dissertation

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• I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good.

  Leon Russell

  Song, Writing, Perfect

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• I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Writing, Successful, Age

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Support, Survival

  Inaugural address, 20 January 1961, in 'Vital Speeches' 1 February 1961, p. 227

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• Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.

  Harold Evans

  Eye, Boys, Media

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way. Other writers direct the recording session and then leave quite a bit of the work to us.

  Larry Fessenden

  Directors, Different, Pieces

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes as I start to write the middle. That way by the time the screenplay is finished I have taken myself and my audience from a familiar beginning point through the story to an unfamiliar ending point.

  Christian Keiber

  Taken, Writing, Mind

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