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The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished. — Meles Zenawi
For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them. — Michelle Ryan
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live. — Alice Duer Miller
I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a… — Wanda Sykes
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings. — George R. R. Martin
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. — Rose Tremain
Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you,… — Tomas Transtromer
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when… — Andrew Solomon
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears. — Josef von Sternberg
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at… — John F. Carlson
I only finished first grade. — Amnat Ruenroeng
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge. — Matsuo Basho
I don't believe a player is ever a finished product. — Anthony Rizzo
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It… — Albert Gubay
There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess… — Sada Thompson
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished. — Scott Putesky
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design. — Stephen Sprouse
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her… — Sophie Thompson
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line… — John M. Tyler
Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a… — Gianna Beretta Molla
Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in… — David Berg
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen. — M. Night Shyamalan
I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive,… — Carey Mulligan
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks. — George Eliot
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. — James Whistler

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