Finished Quotes - Page 14

• I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Thinking, Lines

  9 Copy quote

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Dirty, Book, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

  Diane Lane

  Laughing, Wish, Looks

  "Memory Lane" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Stars, Men, Names

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A negative is never finished.

  Sigmar Polke

  Negative

  Sigmar Polke, Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Site Santa Fe (Gallery), Corcoran Gallery of Art (1995). “Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

  Jacques Pepin

  Kitchen, President, Nehru

  "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Race, World, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

  Amy Ryan

  Beautiful, Stuff, Remember

  4 Copy quote

• When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

  Mike Rutherford

  Thinking, Next, Projects

  4 Copy quote

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  Trevor Rabin

  Song, Talking, Ideas

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

  Ali Smith

  Connections, Connected, Happens

  4 Copy quote

• The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  Taiye Selasi

  Summer, Ghana, West

  "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots" by Taiye Selasi, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  Taiye Selasi

  Emotional, Long, Flow

  "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Struggle, Boys, Men

  9 Copy quote

• I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

  Devon Sawa

  School, Six Months, Hung

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

  Donna Shalala

  Country, Growing Up, School

  7 Copy quote

• Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

  John Sandford

  Book, Writing, Years

  4 Copy quote

• It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Writing, Mind, Study

  5 Copy quote

• Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

  Ridley Scott

  Taken, Editing, Gone

  8 Copy quote

• Nature is never finished.

  Robert Smithson

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

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Sculpture, Architecture

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

  Juno Temple

  Proud, Sometimes, Exciting

  "Sundance Q&A: Juno Temple Is Blowing Up". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

  Amy Waldman

  Powerful, Coffee, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  Dan Wheldon

  Running, Dad, Children

  4 Copy quote

• I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Dad, Home

  4 Copy quote