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• I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.

  Tom Ford

  Trying, One Day, Gone

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• I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.

  Rita Dove

  Writing, Mean, Responsibility

  Interview with M. Wynn Thomas, www.english.illinois.edu. August 12, 1995.

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• I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Grateful, Different, Another Chance

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• No great work of art is ever finished.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Great Work, Art Is

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• With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, really run out of time. They keep pushing in case there's a better idea around the corner.

  Steven Price

  Running, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

  Dale Peck

  New York, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Up To You, Want, Walks

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.

  Yasmin Paige

  Heart, People, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Writing, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The overall balance is right. Balance shouldn't be confused with design. There has to be restless jostle and aggression and a bit of dynamism, not just pat-ness or settled-ness or immediate pleasing-ness.

  Matthew Collings

  Confused, Design, Balance

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• I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.

  Byron Nelson

  Summer, Home, Boat

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• Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

  Yoko Ono

  Phones, Letters, Phone Calls

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• Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

  Martin Mull

  Men, Forever, Yeah

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• You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

  Ralph Marston

  Blessing, Here And There, Counting

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• Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Powerful, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Knows

  "Europe's Conservatives Sour On the Free Market" by Bruce Crumley, content.time.com. September 26, 2008.

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• I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working.

  Megan Lee

  School, College, Class

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". GLITTER interview, glittermagrocks.com.

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• I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

  Lawrence Welk

  Book, Thinking

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• Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.

  John Stott

  Men, Circumcision, Done

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.49, InterVarsity Press

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• As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Jobs, Kids

  "'It's Paula-nick'". Online Q&A, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

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• When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Opportunity, Trying, Cinema

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• If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade materials, what kind of finished product do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer. So if you're building a human body and the material that will become your blood, bones, skin, organs-indeed, every cell of your body-is inferior and of poor quality, what kind of body do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer.

  Harvey Diamond

  Thinking, Poor Quality, Cells

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• Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Past, May, Action

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• Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.

  Goenawan Mohamad

  Beautiful, Country, Thinking

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