I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they’re not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that’s very male dominated.
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you’re empty and you can’t give anything more to it anymore.
You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other’s sentences a bit creatively when you’ve worked together for a while.
I want to dig in before I finish with a career here in Congress – be known as someone who was a really serious legislator, who had really good ideas and was willing to work across the aisle to get broad consensus to solve some of these problems the country is facing.
We don’t feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we’re not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they’re only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, ‘It’s a book. I’ve got to finish it.’
I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink.
You look at the part in ’12 Years A Slave,’ you finish that script – I mean, it’s a powerful story. You go, ‘Man, I have to play a bad character in this.’ And then you go, ‘Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?’
If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new ‘Resident Evil’ comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I’m at a point where I don’t have much time to play around anymore, so I don’t really get started on the games if I won’t be able to finish them.
My parents were disappointed I didn’t finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace – you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader’s going to finish what you’re writing.
In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They’re much more inclined to finish their plates when they’ve helped decide what goes on them.
Many people tell me that they don ‘t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.
It’s okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive – some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
Whenever I’ve done jobs, whether it’s an acting job or writing job, there’s an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.
I didn’t finish high school. I tried to as an adult, but with all this touring, I had to quit.
The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man’s look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I’m the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It’s only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I’d have gone if he hadn’t. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
I always wanted to be a Sixer… I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.
Believe me, when I finish shooting ‘Mad Men,’ there’s a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I’m not very good at applying fake lashes.
Love is important. I didn’t have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I’ve always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I’d need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
Every time I finish a song, I play it for my family. I don’t hide anything.
I’ve done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
Kanye and I spoke of working together and started an idea that we didn’t get to finish.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I’d been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it – and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work?
Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you’re decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.
Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don’t switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character’s arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you’re sort of powerless to what happens.
When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, ‘Is this song a hit?’ I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you’re definitely going to think, ‘Can this song be put on the radio?’
Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It’s got to keep going without me.
I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.
I don’t know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I’m going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, ‘We’ll just try to get them next week at Darlington.’
Fast-paced from start to finish, ‘The Honourable Schoolboy’ is fired by le Carre’s conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
Every one tells me that I’m a pretty fast eater. I’ll sit down to a dinner, and I’ll finish in two minutes while everyone else will take 30 minutes.
BMX is never over until the finish line, and I am always trying to challenge myself for that world stage.
Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that’s the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.
When I finish a book, I always fear that I’ll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else – but nothing else makes me as happy.
Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn’t finish.
I can’t stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, ‘You start something and you finish it’, and that stuck with me. I’m persistent.
Indeed, ‘The Second Plane’ is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he’s thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
I’m always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I’ve struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.
Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he’s going to make a skateboard ramp. It’s just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We’re not even going to finish it.
Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here’s one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point – in terms of character development – as you can.
