Finishing Quotes - Page 12

• I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

  Gold Panda

  Ideas, Long, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Your goal is simple: Finish. Experience your first race, don't race it. Your first race should be slightly longer or slightly faster than your normal run. Run your first race. Later you can race. You will be a hero just for finishing, so don't put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!

  Bob Glover

  Running, Distance, Hero

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• I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

  Jhene Aiko

  School, Thirteen, Finished

  Source: earstyle.net

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• America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

  Colin Powell

  Educational, Kids, School

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

  Paul Banks

  School, House, Levels

  "Paul Banks and RZA On Their Banks & Steelz Album, Wu-Tang, and Chess". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2016.

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• I'd met Harrison Ford before, but he was just finishing a meet with Jon Favreau and the other producers on the film, and we said "hello" as he walked out and I walked in and sat down and had this meeting with those guys. They basically described what they were looking for, and they thought that I brought a certain amount of authenticity to the genre, and would I want to take part? And I said, "Absolutely! I'd love to!"

  Keith Carradine

  Guy, Down And, Want

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

  Freeman Dyson

  Years, Age, Degrees

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2018.

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• I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English literature. It was wonderful to get away from doing literary scholarship by writing this mythical love story. I think so much of my own love for books and scholarship comes through in The Thorn and the Blossom.

  Theodora Goss

  Book, Believe, Sleep

  Source: www.bookequals.com

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• I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

  Theodora Goss

  Long, Degrees, Stories

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Usually I'm able to prepare a message about two to three weeks in advance.I know some preachers don't like that. They want to be finishing it on Friday before they preach it on Sunday, but our worship team really likes me to get it done way in advance.

  Max Lucado

  Friday, Team, Sunday

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Often Is, Exhibitions, Stuff

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

  Lily Collins

  Book, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Exercise, Reflection, Winning

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• Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Morning, Sleep, Cat

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• And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Reality, People, Worry

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

  David Graeber

  Jobs, Self, Generations

  David Graeber (2013). “The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement”, p.68, Spiegel & Grau

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• Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

  Michael Cunningham

  Hero, Thinking, Virginia

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

  Cobi Jones

  Details, Attention, Minors

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• After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sick, Mind, Stories

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• Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

  Chance the Rapper

  Jobs, School, College

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  Laini Taylor

  Book, Finishing It, Worry

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

  Michael Weatherly

  Mean, Thinking, Challenges

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• Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Divorce, Past, Feelings

  "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism". Book by Joan Z. Borysenko, 1993.

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• I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

  Peter Weller

  Italian, Renaissance, Italian Renaissance

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