- 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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
- For The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020