- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waiting Quotes
For everything that hasn't happened yet.
Several of these quotes come from performers describing the limbo of waiting for the right role or gig, a restlessness that carries into hope as much as frustration.
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- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.
- List
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
- Contraction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.
- Business Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020