Usually I’m the one asking somebody to do something because I don’t know how to finish it. I’m like, ‘Do this for me’ because I’m just resistant to learning. – Amy Sedaris
It’s a phobia I have. I never assume I’m going to be able to write another album after I finish one. – Bruce Cockburn
Even though they won’t finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season. – Alan Hansen
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. – Alberto Giacometti
Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It’s like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I’m missing. – Bat for Lashes
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. – Abel Ferrara
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that’s where I recoup my money. – Buchi Emecheta
Beijing didn’t go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish. – Alicia Sacramone
If you’re a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, ‘Oh, I could have done so much better,’ that’s not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. – Peter Jackson
It’s quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. – Chad Harbach
I’ve never been a fast reader. I’m fickle; I don’t finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again. – Nicholson Baker
One thing, when you’re an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you’re a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I’m working on new stuff for a new album right now. – Chris Isaak
I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams. – Fatema Mernissi
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I’d always finish up with a tutor. I couldn’t do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show. – Candace Cameron Bure
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn’t mean anything. It’s not like a novel or short story – a script is meant to be made into a movie. – Maggie Carey
As an athlete, you’re brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you’re going to start a meal, you’re going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, ‘I eat until I’m full and leave the rest.’ – Michael Strahan
I’ve been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you’ve built it or before you’ve finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more. – Fred Wilson
Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there’s another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe. – Cass McCombs
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. – Edwin Louis Cole
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you’re going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. – Danny Elfman
I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish ’70s’, finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after ’70s’ and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn’t want to be a part of anymore. – Mila Kunis
It’s incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1. – Marcel Hirscher
There’s a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I’ve got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it… so I don’t write a million songs. – Christine McVie
I’ve always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens – you know, until it finds its own plot – because you can’t outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it’s a slow way of working. – Nelson Algren