I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Google is fascinating, and the book isn’t finished. I’m creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
Lots of shows are written completely in the writer’s room. And I wouldn’t say ‘The Walking Dead’ is that way. There are three levels to it. There’s us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.
My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that’s going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.
A show is like having a climax. It’s like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it’s all finished, and you don’t know what to do next.
There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission – prisoner-of-war operations – was finished.
The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
It isn’t glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
I didn’t sleep the night I finished ‘Sister Hills.’ It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn’t have a clue. It’s a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time. It’s a story that’s raising questions.
‘It is finished’ is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I’ll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
I’ve just finished reading ‘The Second Plane,’ and I think it’s some of the best non-fiction I’ve ever read.
Any union that can’t accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
I have a lot of novels that I haven’t finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it’s not going anywhere. I don’t publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.
If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.
I’ve always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
One of the most fantastic experiences I ever had was as a decathlete. I finished fifth in the nation my senior year of high school. I had no training or nothing.
Most fighters, when they’re finished, boxing turns its back on them.
I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called ‘Anacoluthon.’ This will make the public think it is an historical romance.
There was a little less pressure to be fit on ‘The Avengers’ than ‘Captain America.’ I had just finished ‘Captain America,’ so I was already built. Plus, ‘Captain America’ has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. ‘The Avengers’ has not one shirtless scene.
I’m so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished ‘Wu-Tang Forever,’ I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism.
I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that’s when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest – a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
The opening novel of the ‘Bayou Trilogy’ was the first one I finished.
I finished ‘American Born Chinese’ in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn’t going as well as it should have been.
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It’s important that I tell them about how I don’t get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
The script of a play is not a finished product: It’s a set of instructions.
Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.
After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’
Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.
When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn’t know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.
I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.
I’m getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I’ve ever played in my life, in the most unique project.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed – an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.
People ask ‘How do you get so eh-ish?’ I don’t know if it’s just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.
You just don’t know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you’ve finished, you say, ‘This one is not so good. This one is good.’
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
Arsenal showed the door to too many people. Why did they let Thierry Henry go? When I found out about his move I realised the Arsenal I played for were finished.
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I’m terribly anxious when it’s not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I’m finished I’m not going to be on the front page, but I’m going to be just as happy without the publicity.
