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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

  Ernest Cline

  Book, Hands, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• It's always fun to do the fight sequences and then to complete them, because some of them are quite complicated - with guns and so on - and there's always things that can go wrong. It's fun to shoot those things because we rehearse them very strenuously. It's fun to shoot them, and fun to know they're finished, that they're in the can so to speak.

  Liam Neeson

  Fun, Fighting, Gun

  "Liam Neeson & Olivier Megaton chats Taken 3". www.frontrowreviews.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.

  Peter Jackson

  Eye, Knowing, Cameras

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Issues, Wind

  "Death of a Salesman at Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller". Interview With Colby H. Kullman, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Reading, Cat, Tails

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

  Martin Lawrence

  Home, Next Day, Relax

  "Martin Lawrence Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON; Updates on BAD BOYS 3 and THE SKANK ROBBERS With Jamie Foxx". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 13, 2011.

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• When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

  Ben Whishaw

  Actors, Levels, Able

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

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• I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Race, Work Out

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• The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Civilization, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3070, Delphi Classics

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• Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Thinking, Daring

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.379

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• No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Perfect, Virtue, Courses

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  School, Long, People

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• Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.

  Cobie Smulders

  Running, Focus, Training

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• A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

  Rembrandt

  Artist, Realizing, Intention

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• I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Writing, People

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• When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

  Francois Cavanna

  Trying, Ceilings, Painting

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Burdens Of Life, Land, Brain

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• The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Winning, Risk, Tragedy

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

  Mary Borden

  Death, Pity, Dies

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• 'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Feels, Connected

  "Helen Oyeyemi: 'I'm interested in the way women disappoint one another'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2014.

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• I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.

  Joan Robinson

  Intellectual, Tragedy, Revolution

  American Economic Association, Joan Robinson (1972). “The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971”

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• I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

  Brennan Manning

  Motivational, Thinking, Done

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