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Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.


Joan Collins

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ASA DON BROWN He sought the neighborhoods out rather than waiting for them. He was very shrewd.
JOHN MORAN Rather than waiting for the event to happen this was sort of a way to stimulate the event.
KURT SCHACHT Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
EDWARD DE BONO Be so strong enough in virtues like hard work rather than waiting for miracle.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Instead of waiting for miracles, wake up and take charge of your life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Don't sit around waiting for it to happen.
Get out there and make it happen!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.
CHUCK VIANE Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're wait...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in,...
GERALD J. FORD Just kind of waiting out to hear the locals' chatter, rather than wait to hear everything from the p...
KEVIN BOYLE Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.
MOEZ SURANI The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something ...
TRACY L. HIGLEY One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting ...
MEG CABOT Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a te...
LEAH READER Life isn’t about deserving.” I closed my eyes and sighed. “Aren’t you the one always spoutin...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN It was a victim of opportunity. We don't think he was waiting for the victim at all, we think he was...
CARLOS TORRES Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
RALPH NOVAK Life is a book waiting to happen.
SLOAN MCBRIDE was just throbbing out there, waiting to be appropriated.
JEFF GOODBY It's kind of like Christmas. You'll be waiting and waiting and waiting, but you try not to think abo...
ALEXANDER JOHNSON Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my...
CAMRYN MANHEIM Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained...
THOMAS M. CIRIGNANO In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have de...
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MARIE LU Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.
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ASA DON BROWN I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Maybe my story's only waiting for an honest person to pick up the book.
GABRIELLE GLINSKI I was just waiting my turn and working really hard. I was just waiting for the opportunity that I ha...
KIRK SNYDER What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began...
ORHAN PAMUK When the time comes, you should be waiting ... it is better to be ready without opportunities than n...
MINA TADROS I scrambled around, got everything together, and applied. Then it was like a waiting game.
AMELIA HORTON You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.
ANDREW BROWN In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the n...
PEARL S. BUCK It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right...
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PATRICK NESS Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happen...
ROY T. BENNETT Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting ...
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CHIPPER JONES Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic ...
ANDY COHEN The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write th...
MELODY BEATTIE When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for di...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR. When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for di...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.
EVEL KNIEVEL We’re not asking you to censor anything, ... We’re not asking you to take the book out of the li...
MARK WALKER It's not a time for anarchy or trying to make a buck. My real concern is the impoverished people wai...
AMY WILSON I'll probably be forced to take two days' holiday to cover my time spent waiting at the airport wast...
BOB EVANS None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the...
KATHLEEN NORRIS Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ech...
DON MARQUIS Life is a purposeful action.
ASA DON BROWN I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I'm kind of waiting for an algebra book.
ROBERTO MARTINEZ All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
KAMAND KOJOURI We're very excited with the progress we've made in a short period of time. Our goal is to be a compe...
SCOTT DREW The Black Dahlia, she was someone who was just waiting for an executioner, waiting for it to happen....
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APRIL HORACE Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I c...
EMME ROLLINS When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjur...
CHARLES BAXTER It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
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BLAIR HORNER Oh, that sounds like a song waiting to be made.
FATBOY SLIM What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around...
KATE ZAMBRENO When you come out, they automatically want to say what you are and compare you to somebody. They wan...
CIARA HARRIS Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
KIN HUBBARD Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
KIN HUBBARD How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?
VANNA BONTA How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?
ROBERT TIZON The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and...
GENE NELSON Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
KHALED HOSSEINI The Baylor faithful has been waiting for an opportunity to say, 'That's my university; that's my sch...
C.J. WILSON He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait....
LAUREN DESTEFANO Happiness can't be made; it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.
T.F. HODGE My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
BILL COSBY If you're waiting for something to be perfect, you will be waiting a long time.
KURT KROHN We’re not asking you to censor anything, ... We’re not asking you to take the book out...
MARK WALKER My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my care...
FRED FUNK So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting...
NEIL GAIMAN Everyone is still waiting for the book that everyone greets as the big literary book. People thought...
JOHN STERLING All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
DANIEL KEYES I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.
ROBERT STONE We're counting on Jake a lot, but there are a whole lot of other factors and a lot of kids we need t...
CLAIR ALTEMUS You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip ...
ITALO CALVINO I knew the weather was going to be my biggest challenge. We're playing the waiting game, waiting for...
CHRIS DAVENPORT It would be great to take preventative measures until waiting for something to happen.
ANDY HALL A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Instead of waiting around for your dream, be relentless and go after it!
JOHN DI LEMME Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional footb...
GLEN DUNCAN There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lec...
SANDRA BOYNTON I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.
RICHARD JEWELL Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and re...
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JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which ha...
JOAN MIRO I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e...
JOAN RIVERS Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the b...
JOAN HALIFAX Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have h...
JOAN CUSACK I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...
JOAN DIDION I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
JOAN RIVERS Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
JOAN RIVERS