"THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY."
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"...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often."
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"This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me."
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"Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late."
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"On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait."
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"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
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"Brand new Beretta, can't wait to let it go."
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"I'm pretty much a movie-to-movie guy. It's hard for me to multitask so I feel very one-thing-at-a-time oriented and I usually just wait until a movie's done and it's premiered, then just kind of reflect on what I'm interested in my own life and let the movies come to me rather than force them."
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"The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the day after the election when [Donald] Trump is no longer in the picture. God, I can't wait for that. I hope he just goes away."
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"Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you."
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"I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!"
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"I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved."
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"One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change."
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"I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own."
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"As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES.""
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"The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?"
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"An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying."
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"I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more."
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"I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables."
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"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
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