- Mistake
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
- Somewhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holly Holm - before she fought Ronda, the fights were never that great. It was like, 'Yeah, she's screwed against Ronda!' Well, what they were doing is they were kind of playing opossum, just waiting for the big shot.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sense making plans to get a job or finish school at Johns Hopkins, which I just wasn't getting anything out of. Life was waiting to go back on 'Jeopardy!'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020