- 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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
- Benefactor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people can see you in a film and not realize it's you until the very end, that's exciting to me.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020