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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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.'
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- Nov 07, 2020