- Mad
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to wear jerseys at games, which fans have been doing in great numbers for 30 years, dressing as if they might be summoned from the stands on a moment's notice to pinch-run. But those same jerseys are now omnipresent on airplanes, in restaurants, in doctor's waiting rooms.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.
- Phone Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the type of guy if there's a haunted hotel in town, I'm staying there and will stay up all night waiting to get the crap scared out of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I do when I come to work, I say hello to my dogs and give them one biscuit each. The butler takes them out to the park and drops them off at the office, so they are there waiting for me. They are very popular in the studio. They play all the time. They run around, up and down, left and right.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the salesperson is busy, he or she should nod and say 'I'll be with you in a few moments,' so the customer won't mind waiting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020