There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
When you've found your inner artist, suddenly nothing is ever finished
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
It’s not how you start that’s important, but how you finish!
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
[first lines] Briony Tallis, aged 13: I finished my play.
In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.
It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
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