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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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"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."

"Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around."

"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?"

"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."

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

"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."
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"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."

"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."

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

"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."

"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."
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