Finished Quotes - Page 8

• When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasnt the case. I struggled.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Winning, Years, Would Be

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Son, Ideas, House

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• I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Jazz, Scholar

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• This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Pride, Awards, Joy

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• There is hope for me yet
  Because God won't forget
  All the plans he's made for me
  I have to wait and see
  He's not finished with me yet

  Brandon Heath

  Waiting, Forget, Made

  Song: Wait And See, Album: What If We, 2008

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• It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

  Terry Fox

  Hurt, Hands, People

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• Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

  Marguerite Henry

  Dream, Book, Character

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• I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

  Frank Auerbach

  Order, Rework, Recalls

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• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  Gay Talese

  Writing, Thinking, Turns

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Goal, Saint

  "The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery".

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• By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Coffee, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.279, Random House

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• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Husband, Father, Character

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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Holiday, Long, Celebrate Life

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• Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Growing Up, People, Generations

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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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• You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

  Fred Lebow

  Running, Feel Good, Feels

  Fred Lebow (1994). “New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running”, Random House Reference

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• Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

  Philip Pullman

  Suspense, Stories, Love Story

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• I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dying, Faces, Face To Face

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Writing, Ought

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.123, Book House

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• When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.

  Lobsang Rampa

  Answers, Goes On, World

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• Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Talking, Brokeback Mountain, Remember

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• You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Let It Go, Tvs

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• Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Book, Writing, Stronger

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• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Stupid, Hate, Perfect

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