Waiting Quotes - Page 19

• There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.

  Joseph Boyden

  Thinking, Fire, Civilization

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Spiritual, Religious, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Real, Years, Passing By

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.

  Claudia Rankine

  Interaction With Others, Together, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

  Claudia Rankine

  Letting Go, Forgiving, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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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• If I talk about the bad old days of crystal meth for too long, I start getting like, "Oh...speed...that was delicious..." But in general, I don't so much. Or wait - maybe the recklessness just occurs in a different sphere so it doesn't look like bottoming out. But really - isn't trying to have a baby sort of a reckless thing to do?

  Michelle Tea

  Baby, Long, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Benjamin Stone

  California, People, Lucky

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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."

  Benjamin Stone

  Jobs, Hands, Looks

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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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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• The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from neglect and hunger in New York to loving farm families who couldn't wait to fatten them up, who gave them medical care, an education, affection. And some of the kids became the victims of terrible cruelty, and more hunger, and more neglect - it all depended on who adopted them off of the train.

  Laura Moriarty

  New York, Kids, Care

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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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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• Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

  Kate Christensen

  Voice, Anxiety, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project.

  Mary J. Miller

  Thinking, Gold, Stories

  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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• I think our legal system needs to be developed. Cases of citizens who are detained and then have to wait much too long for a trial - that is scary, for everyone. When someone commits a crime he needs to be charged quickly. Why does this take so long in many cases? I don't know. Is it because our legal system is still rudimentary? China has promised to modernize its legal system. This has high priority.

  Zhang Xin

  Thinking, Long, Priorities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.

  T Cooper

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't believe I'm in New Zealand, I can't wait to play. It's just so beautiful out here and so awesome.

  The Rocket Summer

  Beautiful, Believe, Play

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• In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

  Neal Barnard

  Weight Problems, Needs, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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