Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.
You wouldn’t train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally c...
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
Sexy Stud: [as the cops pull up] Oh, shit! Not again! Gotta finish!
Walt Kowalski: You got your whole life ahead of you, but for me, I finish things.
Mary: I can't finish the novel, I don't know whether he's good or bad.
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
