- Almost Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
End Quotes
How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.
This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
- Offended
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020