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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to… — William Faulkner
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through. — Richard Armour
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer… — Gore Vidal
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… — Juliana Hatfield
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished… — H. L. Mencken
Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not… — Rajneesh
A finished product is one that has already seen its better days. — Art Linkletter
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation. — Pablo Picasso
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that… — Denis Norden
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. — Allen Tate
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he… — Arthur Miller
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was… — Ian Fleming
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start… — Raymond E. Feist
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. — John Drinkwater
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put… — John Drinkwater
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general… — Lynne Truss
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,… — Mary McCarthy
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… — Ken Burns
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one… — Ken Burns
When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly. — Arthur Bloch
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars. — Mary Ellen Mark
Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other. — Jack Paar
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt

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