#finished

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.' ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#day #finished #heavier #home #i

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#excuses #finished #gonna #i #like

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#europe #negative #proof #unfinished #which

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behind #case #does #field #finished

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#america #american #american movies #demonstrates #europe

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#aware #book #existence #human #human existence

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beautiful #done #everything #finished #flat

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies