Waiting Quotes - Page 30

• I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Sex, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me off so badly it haunted me for 25 years. But I had to wait to be a good enough writer to give Ida her voice back. And I had to go get my own first too. I not only know the case study inside and out, like most women, I lived a version of it. Maybe it's time for us to tell our versions.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Years, Voice, Hysteria

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

  Biz Stone

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

  David Bowie

  Song, Moving, Book

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

  Denzel Whitaker

  Mind, Patient

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team?

  Derrick Rose

  Running, Team, Player

  "NBA: Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose remains confident in his game". Interview with ESPN's Nick Freidell, January 12, 2016.

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• In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, Moving, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.

  Debra Dean

  Art, Writing, Support

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

  Patrick Stump

  Want, Wanted, Felt

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• There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

  Leigh Newman

  Joy, Littles, Germs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

  Rachael Taylor

  Expectations, Firsts, Happens

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• I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

  Julianna Baggott

  Something New

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

  Sophie Blackall

  Children, Book, Lucky

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!

  Sophie Blackall

  Girl, Morning, Fun

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.

  Wesley K. Wark

  War, Book, Wind

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important. But Better Call Saul is a real capstone for me, a once-in-a-career opportunity, I think. I'm so happy they decided to invite me to their party. I can't wait to see where it takes me.

  Patrick Fabian

  Jobs, Real, Party

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't. I always find myself thinking, "I'm getting ready right now, but when I get to the party it's going to be great!" Once at the party, I find myself going, "Man, can't wait to get in bed tonight. I'm pooped." It's like that with my career, too.

  Eric Lange

  Party, Men, Thinking

  "Eric Lange from FX's hit show The Bridge". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.

  Mariana Klaveno

  College, Class, Acting

  "Stalker’s Mariana Klaveno: Being Healthy is Part of the Job". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

  James Hunter

  Lasts, Pressure, Minutes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself."

  Will Oldham

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics It's quite understandable that many business concerns think only about their own profits It's up to the public to put as much pressure as it can on these companies, through shareholder resolutions and public actions.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Ideas, Responsible Government

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• I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

  Ed Speleers

  Phones, Perfect, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

  Bob Colacello

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.

  William Mapother

  Long, Suffering, Delay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Regardless of whether or not the producers think that there are five other people waiting for the job, the one that is there needs to be treated as if they are the only person for the job in that moment.

  Anika Noni Rose

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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