Straight after the Prescott fight, people were saying, ‘He’s finished. He’s not going to come back.’ There were only racial remarks made. But, you know what, it made me stronger. It made me come back even stronger. It made me a better fighter.
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
When we’ve finished the current tour I’m going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
I’ve just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I’m now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it’s something I take great pride in when it’s finished.
A finished person is a boring person.
I’m famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they’re finished.
When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We’re having a new record out in the Spring.
I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, ‘No, you’re not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you’re going back into it with a heart that’s not obsessive over it.’
A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
I never know when a record is finished until it’s almost finished.
When I look back on my career – if that’s what it is – it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it’s just really because, when one job has finished, I’ve never really been in a position where I had three or four options.
None of my books has been ever in my head; after they’re finished, they go. It’s like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it’s there then just release it when it’s time to go. There’s a lot of instinct, not planning.
For a long time, I’ve had a recurring dream – I dream I don’t have to write any more, that I’m free. I’m not free, alas; I’m still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it’s never finished.
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they’d cut that in and add it.
I want to be able to function and that’s the conversation that I’m having now more than ever – playing vs. functioning while I’m finished playing.
As a director, your work is finished only when it’s on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet’s. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S.
I just wrote a book, but don’t go out and buy it yet, because I don’t think it’s finished yet.
Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
It’s pointless to be critical of your stuff once it’s done. I don’t spend a lot of time agonising over it. It’s of no importance once it’s finished.
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I’d finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.
I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
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.
When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, ‘Well, that’s embarrassing. I’d better do one more to show people I’m not that bad.’ And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that’s gone on for 35 years.
I just finished an episode of a new show called ‘Century City.’ It’s like ‘Law & Order’ set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, ‘OK, time to watch ‘SpongeBob!’
I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you’re getting a finished product at the end of the day. You’re communicating directly with the reader.
A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university’s offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
You can’t worry about ageing because that’s the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don’t like, and then you’re finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.
There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And ‘Batman Begins’ was what I wanted to see.
‘It is finished’ will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. ‘It is finished’ is a cry of victory.
Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it’s finished.
The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.
I’m very much half-American – my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.
‘The Buccaneers’ was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn’t finished yet – and which won’t be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!
After I finished university and started going to auditions again, and I also did a bunch of other jobs. I worked in the insurance industry, the digital media industry; I worked in a financial services company for three years.
I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
With the TV stuff, we usually hand in final, finished tracks. The turnaround time is so tight that there’s no time to demo anything; you just do it.
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way – and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.
Once I’ve properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with ‘Capital,’ I felt I’d spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I’ve not quite had before.
The thing I’m always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you’ve finished, it still pops back into your head.
My songwriting, when I’m writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form – but you have to start somewhere.
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I’m finished with a theme, I’m generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
