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• Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Doors, Taverns

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

  David Brinkley

  Years, People, House

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• All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

  Lord Byron

  Funny Marriage, Tragedy, Comedy

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 9

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• My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

  James Thurber

  Ideas, Drawing, Arguing

  Life Magazine Interview, March 14, 1960.

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• Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Terrible Times, I Can

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• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  Chris Lowe

  Play, People, Waiting

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• Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

  Pliny the Younger

  Artist, Finishing, Painting

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• Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

  Robert Altman

  Sculpture, Pieces, Stones

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• Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

  John Howard

  War, Iraq, Regimes

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Distance, Years, Judging

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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• At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.

  Sebastian Junger

  Good Friend, People, Soldier

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a copy of the book and read that. My wife had read it and she loves it, so that was a good sounding board. I like her writing style, she's such a page-turner. I enjoyed The Constant Princess as well. I think she's great. The books are very popular with women and I can see why.

  Eric Bana

  Book, Princess, Writing

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.

  I. M. Pei

  Art, Years, Design

  Source: archtalks.com

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• Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

  Danny Boyle

  Watches, Way, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

  Andrew Bird

  Taken, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Daughter, Nursing, Thinking

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.

  Noah Baumbach

  Song, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of the times once you've finished a scene, the best reaction is to say you don't really remember what happened. I don't really remember what I did or the choices I made.

  Jessica Biel

  Choices, Remember, Scene

  "Jessica Biel's Maternal Instinct". Interview with Hannah Ghorashi, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 10, 2014.

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• The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

  Bill Condon

  Writing, Pieces, Dues

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• [I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Numbers, Stupidity

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• When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

  Henri Matisse

  Children, Artist, Understanding

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

  Mary McCarthy

  Incessant, Labor, Behinds

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Drama, Spring

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• Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Beautiful, Parent, Hummingbirds

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