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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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"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."

"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."

"I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call."

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

"I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one."

"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."

"So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl."

"But, someone, please give me-who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew-give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?"
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"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

"To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing."

"It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company."

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."

"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 kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography."
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