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“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”

Firsts Book Moments Lasts Five Minutes Errors Productions Finished Bliss Flaws Five Minutes Doorstep Culmination Moment Of Truth

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.”

Mind Persons Minutes Higher Mere Curiosity Simplicity Finished Impress Insensible

Book:Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

Source: Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

“My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.”

Two Book Home Dream Would Be Able Beautiful Pay Minutes Produce Offers Finished Dust Copies Print Jackets Scenarios Fees Bookshops

Author:William Gibson

“When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.”

Sound Rooms Five Cutting Minutes Add Finished Steady Five Minutes

Author:Fay Wray

“The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished”

Thinking Greater Minutes Finished

Author:Frankie Knuckles

“If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.”

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Author:Jeff Dunham

“I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.”

Heart I Can Five Minutes Angry Finished Five Minutes

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.”

Minutes Color My Favorite Finished Gowns Favorite Color

Author:Erykah Badu

“At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.”

“I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good.”

Ifs Writing Trying I Can Happens Song Perfect Five Minutes Down And Finished Five Minutes

Author:Leon Russell

“The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.”

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Author:Sam Smith