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You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to… — Johnny Depp
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things… — Junot Diaz
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are… — Philip K. Dick
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge… — Emma Donoghue
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've… — Robert Duvall
I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself… — Jesse Eisenberg
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. — John Engler
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962… — Richard Ernst
I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished. — Carly Fiorina
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say… — Ronald Fisher
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines. — Taylor Hackford
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an… — Margaret Haddix
Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished. — Anthony Hopkins
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions. — Jack Irons
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. — John Irving
There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it.… — Hugh Jackman
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God… — Jesse Jackson
I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong… — David Jeremiah
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. — Paul Keating
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,… — Jonathan Kozol
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I… — Milan Kundera
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. — Karl Lagerfeld
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war.… — Karl Lagerfeld

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