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Waiting Quotes

For everything that hasn't happened yet.

Several of these quotes come from performers describing the limbo of waiting for the right role or gig, a restlessness that carries into hope as much as frustration.

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Agatha Christie

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Mark my words, even if I sell out a club of 15,000 with all girls, I'm not taking my shirt off. I'm sorry. I know y'all are waiting to see the pasty stomach and everything.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

Quotes by Adrian Edmondson

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God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

Alone Quotes

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I remember, post the release of 'Aashiqui 2,' there was a girl from Kolkata who was waiting outside my building for six days, and that's crazy. She should have just called me; I would have gone and met her.

Quotes by Aditya Roy Kapur

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The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.

Quotes by Adhir Kalyan

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You can't play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way without giving the audience the sense that there's something behind that mask waiting to get out, that he's a little crazed; he's strange.

Quotes by Adam West

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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From...

Quotes by Ada Yonath

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The first eight years in Mumbai were specially tough. I knew during the first two months of my stay that there's no point waiting for hours to meet producers. They won't meet you and definitely won't give you a role.

Quotes by Abhimanyu Singh

Distance Quotes

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Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Others use waiting as a metaphor for leadership and direction, questioning what happens when we wait too long to act. Related themes appear in the alone and distance collections.