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• In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

  Mitch Glazer

  Writing, Want, Way

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• What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Years, Envy

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• TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Stars, Acting, Actors

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

  Brandi Carlile

  Writing, People, Feelings

  "A passion for helping people" by Paul Freeman, www.mercurynews.com. August 15, 2012.

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• ...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.

  Dan Ariely

  Running, Business, Technology

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• I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it intensely until you felt like it was done, and then when you finished it, that was the final stage. I started to realize that that's not actually the completion of it. The final stage of any kind of art is to really lose control over it and let it affect other people. You can't control the effect that it has on people, but you hope that it has some sort of reaction. You just hope that they're not indifferent to it, you wanna make people feel something, whether it's love or hate.

  Frank Iero

  Art, Hate, Ideas

  Source: indientry.com

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• The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Essence, Computer

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• Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fall, Aunt, Law

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.92, Macmillan

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• All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

  William Ellery Channing

  Positive Thinking, Expression, Inward

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• I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

  Jack London

  Beautiful, Humor, Long

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.290, Lulu.com

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• If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy occasionally reciprocating, there are a wealth of resources out there for the enthusiastic amateur (you are far from the only would-be blow-jobber whose spirit is willing but gag reflex is weak). You have more options than "no blow jobs, ever" and "regular whole-hog sessions to completion that result in vomiting."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Jobs, Blow, Guilt

  "Open Shut Case" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. December 22, 2015.

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• Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Desire, Yearning

  Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

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• What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Blessing, Giving, Bags

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• Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Energy, Normal

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• Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Bombs, Plutonium

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

  Karan Bajaj

  Beautiful, Yoga, Journey

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Being a mother for me was like, "Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life." This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mother, Whole Life, Being A Mother

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing. You listen to people who have finished and nothing replaces playing, but I'm still excited about not having to put my body through what I've put it through. And not feeling the disappointment that I feel.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Disappointment, Careers

  Source: www.ryangiggs.cc

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• In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the completion of it. For what can be more destructive of truth and value than the doctrine that these are simply the impositions on the world of human exercises of power?

  David E. Cooper

  Exercise, Nihilism, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Strong, Character, Order

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

  Michelle Alexander

  People, Vote, States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly finished." I've got it there. And then there's that whole other phase of moving on to properly amp up the sentences and sometimes to move stuff around as well.

  Geoff Dyer

  Moving, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production and then completion - just informs what you're doing when you're an actor. And when you're an actor, it informs the decisions you make when you're making a film. It's using two different sides of your personality.

  Peter Vack

  Nice, Writing, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Baby, School

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• A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Gaps, Growing

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