Neil Jordan says he has written "a thousand beginnings" but few become finished projects.
Marvel's development slate is relatively thin: the company works on only five or six scripts at once, compared with the dozens under way at major studios, though in Marvel's case virtually all are expected to become finished films.
You must have seen the newspaper story last week that quoted the head of a private school bemoaning how even the lawyers and bankers have been priced out and they've become "finishing schools for the children of oligarchs".
Consultancies and investment banks have become finishing schools for future corporate leaders: Lou Gerstner at IBM, Ken Chenault at American Express, Meg Whitman at eBay and Chuck Conaway at K-Mart all started out in consultancies (as do 65% of the products of top business schools).Capital One, a credit-card company, shows what a difference the application of talent can make to a sleepy market.
Here are some quotations as provided by NFL Network: After a disappointing 2010 season, Coughlin, whose mantra became "finish, finish, finish," showed the team a video of a high school cross-country runner (starting at 1 12 mark below).
The more paperclips you place in the bin, the more motivated you will become to finish the task.
"Kids, finish your vegetables!" never became "Kids, finish sucking the factory produced, sugar-drenched condiments out of those little folding packets!" 4. Cutting education funds.
Each spring I hope they will have become remotely finished artists.
But, tired and passé as he had become, he finished the task that his predecessors had started, of making Germany a normal country.
Then it becomes a "finish".
