#finish

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. 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

#american #american dream #cross #dream #each

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet? ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#bernard #doing #finished #haven #helping

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. ↗

— Dave Grohl

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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

#cover #film #finished #getting #glamorous

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#away #film #finish #i #look

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 assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#away #books #come #deadlines #desk

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #come #draft #eyes #figure

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#command #deadline #decisions #definition #final

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. ↗

— Learned Hand

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Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Franco Harris

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