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Waiting Quotes
"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."
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"No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock."
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"The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on."
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"I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one."
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"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."
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"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."
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"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."
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"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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"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."
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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."
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"We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY."
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"Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around."
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"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."
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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."
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"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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"I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed."
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"So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas."
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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."
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"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."
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"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."
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"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."
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