"Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived."
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"I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait."
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"I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind."
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"Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death."
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"Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money."
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"Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes... no, wait."
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"I never understood actors who could just wait around."
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"Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own."
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"That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting."
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"I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels"
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"You have to be the person you want to be - and start now. If you don't begin the process yourself, you're going to be waiting forever."
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"As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living."
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"Can't wait to start camp on Monday. Feeling really hungry this year. Watch out world."
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"I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me."
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"I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life."
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"I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do."
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"Every time the tour guide told a story, he would build it up to the point where he'd say, "And there was Bloody Joe, and his young ghost son walked into the room." He would build it up, and then it was just "the ghost walked into the room." And he would say, "Let's move on," and that would be it. It's like, wait, what happened to the bloody ghost? That's it? We knew he was making some of it up."
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"The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth."
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"The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself."
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"The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself."
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