If someone has already done a role I’m about to do, I won’t watch the original until after I’m finished playing the role.
When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it.
I found ‘The Twin’ sitting on a coffee table at a writers’ colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it – weeping – a day later, and I’ve been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
When I finished the trilogy of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, I had a gear shift and thought, ‘I need to take a moment to smell the roses.’
I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny – just 6 square meters in total – and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college.
I was born in St. Augustine, Florida. I lived there till I was about 13, and then my family moved to Connecticut. I finished school there, and then I went to college in Philadelphia and came to New York in ’87. I wasn’t finished with school – I left school to go on the road.
The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I’ve just finished it, I don’t want to hear it again. After you’ve taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I’m happy with ‘Sonik Kicks,’ man.
I want to do ‘The Graduate!’ When Lorraine Bracco’s finished, I’m up for it.
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects – refineries, power plants – begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn’t state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
I’m the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn’t stop until it’s finished.
In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, ‘Science is hard and boring.’ We don’t tell children, ‘Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.’
It’s great to see my hard work paying off, even if it’s not finished.
The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren’t going to give up until we got that.
I am just a beginner. The two films so far are baby steps. If I develop an attitude, I’ll be finished even before I’ve started. Besides, if I started misbehaving, my folks would give me a tight slap.
But you know, there’s something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention – they go home, they’re finished. They don’t stall, they don’t do their homework in front of the TV.
One of the tricky things with animation is, because we spend four years on the movie and everything is done so methodically day by day by day, it can be a struggle to have the finished film feel spontaneous and loose and naturally occurring.
It’s so important, after a song is finished, to go to sleep and listen to the song with fresh ears the next day. It’s sometimes a traumatic event. And playing it for someone else for the first time – that is the most nerve-wracking thing of all. But we learn so much.
I finished ‘Beautiful Creature,’ and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren’t intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren’t hard enough.
Loads of verses don’t make it into the finished song.
My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn’t into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.
It’s kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.
I’m amazed that movies ever get finished at all – much less come out good once in a while. It’s an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life – from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book – I’ve succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I’m happier for it.
I just finished my 11th book last week, so I’m ready to start the next one.
Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta’s, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we’re going to after that.
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
I haven’t won a World Cup. There’s things that haven’t been finished, and I’m not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.
I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.
It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn’t built or isn’t finished.
I don’t remember ever having finished a book.
I actually thought ‘Desperate Housewives’ finished very well. I just think there’s still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren’t done watching those people’s lives.
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.
By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don’t really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
When I finally finished the ‘Two Suns’ tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, ‘I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.’ So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
During my university years, I was doing a lot of theatre acting. I would be skipping school for rehearsal. We were rehearsing at night – we finished at midnight, and I had to go to school at 8 A.M. It was very tiring.
A negative is never finished.
When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I’d seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn’t affect me much.
I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you’re done, don’t make your hobby your job.
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don’t move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it’s started and leave before it’s finished.
I wasn’t aware that ‘House on Mango Street’ was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.
When I see a film I’ve finished, it’s like another person made it. Like another mind.
I finished ‘Heartsick’ with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.
I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you’ve finished it.
In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It’s like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn’t finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.
I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
When I’m doing interviews, I’m doing interviews, and when I am writing, I’m writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It’s the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
