"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
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"I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later."
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"If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it."
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"Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar."
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"However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown."
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"The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did."
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"Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read."
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"It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch."
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"Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry."
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"If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives."
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"During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade."
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