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"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."
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"The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by."

"And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And perhaps he has come to that stage of his instant when to live is to wander the last of the living in the depths of an instant without bounds, where the light never changes and the wrecks all look alike. Bluer scarcely than white of egg the eyes stare into the space before them, namely the fullness of the great deep and unchanging calm. But at long intervals they close, with the gentle suddenness of flesh that tightens, often without anger, and closes on itself."

"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."

"I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed."

"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."

"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?"
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"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."

"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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