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I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.

Janice Erlbaum

Real, Book, Writing

Source: therumpus.net

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Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.

Guy Maddin

Tired, Editing, Filled Out

Source: thequietus.com

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You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project you can't remember the real memories anymore, you just remember the film versions of them. And then if the film failed you have distaste for them. So I don't think about that stuff anymore.

Guy Maddin

Memories, Real, Mean

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You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

John Guare

Writing, Play, Buttons

"John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

Snoop Dogg

Home, Thinking, People

Interview, www.mtv.com.au. January 16, 2012.

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There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Dean Koontz

Editors, Names, Together

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.

Sherman Alexie

Two, Effort, Bed

"Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

Grace Paley

Children, Couple, Story Writers

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It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

Jonny Lang

Nice, Writing, Able

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When I finished Westlife, we had - Louie Walsh is still managing me - I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.

Shane Filan

Different, Lucky, Labels

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Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

Mike Yaconelli

Perfect, Spirituality, Trust In God

Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.24, Harper Collins

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Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.

John Caples

Tasks, Hours, Headlines

John Caples (1932). “Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork”

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To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experiences of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it'd dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is wahtever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.

David Bayles

Art, Jobs, Attitude

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I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

George Lucas

Film, Abandoned

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To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.

Dave Chambers

Art, Memories, Wine

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I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

Adam Sandler

Book, Thinking, Pages

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Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

Jim Rohn

Months, Start The Day, Week

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In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Terry Pratchett

Real, Believe, Wine

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When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Ray Bradbury

Writing, Years, Long

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Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

Larry Hagman

Sweet, Nice, Taken

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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

Alain de Botton

Book, Done, Remains

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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

Eric Clapton

Sunday, Thinking, Night

"The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

Peter Shaffer

Fall, Ink, Would Be

"Amadeus". Play by Peter Shaffer, November 2, 1979.

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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

Andre Breton

Flirting, Making Love

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When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

Helen Mirren

Voice, Long, Film

"Helen Mirren Interview LOVE RANCH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 29, 2010.

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