You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I’ve made are a reaction to something I’ve done right before. – Jim Sturgess
Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing. – Julie Kagawa
There’s a point I set for myself, and it’s an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I’m going to finish that book. And that’s when I get to page 100. I have to see it out. – Joanna Scott
I’ve been told, and I think I recognize it, that there’s a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene – and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films. – Khaled Hosseini
I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don’t want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I’m feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious. – Louise Bourgeois
If a story isn’t working, I’m simply unable to finish it. That’s what usually tells me something is wrong. – Len Wein
So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized. – Kim Dae Jung
I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. – Michelle Obama
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way. – Jennifer Connelly
When you are writing and directing and producing, there is a lot of stuff to do. I like to finish one; then while I am editing, I will think of the next one. – John Hamburg
I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, ‘Hey, he’s Mickey Andrews.’ – Kirby Smart
If Truman hadn’t published ‘Answered Prayers’ in parts, he’d have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him. – Jack Dunphy
Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, ‘Yeh, what a way to go out!’ – Jens Voigt
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven’t experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! – Kenneth Koch
As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I’d get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest. – Leonard Cohen
Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it’s taken out of your hands – it’s not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it. – Kimberley Nixon
I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, ‘Hey, I don’t mind you using it, but at least give it a name.’ When he hits it, the announcers just say, ‘Well, he just hit that… thing.’ – Kurt Angle
I don’t think, as a journalist, I’d ever get a story written. I’d probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I’d finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore. – Katherine Kelly
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don’t like looking back. I don’t even like talking about ’em! So I’m really digging back in my memory because I don’t like to sit and look at my films again. – Jim Jarmusch
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the ‘I’m a Fraud’ phase. You go through the ‘I’ll Never Finish’ phase. And every once in a while you think, ‘What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda
I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there’s a little bit more of a start and finish line. – Jim Courier
I read the script for ‘Somnia’ when I was filming ‘Oculus,’ and I remember calling my manager going, ‘I really need to do this movie,’ and he’s like, ‘How about you finish this one first and then you see it?’ I was like, ‘I don’t need to. I don’t need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.’ – Katee Sackhoff
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners. – Joe Henderson
Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. – Julian Castro