- 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
- Decide
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main thing for me was that I wanted to be able to decide when my international career would end after 10 years myself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course outside of university. So I was at school all day writing, and in the evenings I'd go to drama school. So it was nonstop.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a really good start to my career, and there was a lot of speculation about where I'd end up going. Like I did then, I'm just trying to take this all in my stride and keep my feet on the ground.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
- Bull Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'
- In The End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, 'justice' is hardly a self-defining term, and much smarter men than I have developed various definitions over the centuries. The class put Plato at one end and Nietzsche at the other, and off we went.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020