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And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. — Harry Mathews
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines? — Walter Matthau
Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and… — Nia Long
So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy. — Witold Pilecki
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. — Richard Price
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… — Roger Andrew Taylor
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present,… — Tom Wolfe
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that… — Tobias Wolff
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… — Richard Russo
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I… — Ken Thompson
I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other. — Virgil Thomson
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… — Fay Wray
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… — Brian Sibley
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet. — Lawrence Welk
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the… — Kim Weston
When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing… — Robert Smithson
I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before… — Chad Smith
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… — Rod Stewart
Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but… — Ethan Suplee
There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that… — John Sexton

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