It's like being in a prison, and we just wait.
Melinda Shiraki
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MELINDA SHIRAKI We just improvised as best we could.
MELINDA SHIRAKI They set fires in a city that has no water, which blows our minds.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.
MELINDA SHIRAKI It's easier to be with three of your best friends and we keep each other entertained. One cries and ...
MELINDA SHIRAKI It feels like we're in the movies.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We wheel and deal for food. I can't believe we have to do this in America.
MELINDA SHIRAKI This is our only link to the world.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We're trying not to get caught up in the madness -- the violence, the looting and fires.
MELINDA SHIRAKI It's just such a switch going from rescuer to victim, in a sense. It's just about adapting and survi...
MELINDA SHIRAKI Just being detained in a prison is probably intimidation enough.
PAUL ROWE Jessie thinks I can be a big-name model like Jordan or Melinda Messenger.
DANIELLE MASON I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill &am...
SHIV NADAR ...like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human priso...
CHARLOTTE M. MASON I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse...
VALENTINO ROSSI being in prison will turn you into a man.
BRIAN POWELL Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have b...
BLYTHE DANNER We just got back from a seat fitting, and I have to say the car looks like it's in its best conditio...
BRIAN FRISSELLE We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
J.B. PRIESTLEY Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gan...
JUSTIN HALPERN He just can't wait. He's like a kid in a candy store.
STACEY TEARNE He's used to being out in the open, free to do. It wasn't like going to high school. This is only my...
JAMES NICHOLS I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a ch...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
FOXY BROWN We have some great senior leadership and real exciting newcomers. We look to be pretty strong in som...
ERIC RIES Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Jo...
ALEX PETTYFER It was a long bus ride and then we get here and have to wait almost two hours before we can shoot. I...
RYAN CREIGHTON If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
MARK TWAIN Losing someone forever is very painful. Losing someone temporarily, you just wait and wait... And ev...
SARA STRAIN It is a tool for communities like us to use, but the downside is that we have to wait and wait and w...
BILL REYNOLDS If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
MARK TWAIN It's just fun just being a girl.
STACY KEIBLER I can't wait for Saturday and being a Melbourne girl, there is nothing like the AFL Grand Final,
KATIE MACTIER My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER It's hard to keep things in check, everyone, when something happens like that, but we understand, un...
DREW KESSE To me its kind of morbid to kind of wait for the landowners to pass away just to go and steal the la...
MICHAEL CRISTOFARO [after settling a fight between Monica and Rachel] Phoebe: Hey, if we were in prison, you guys would...
FRIENDS What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW I like being a Girl Scout.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS I had never heard of it (the rodeo) until this year. Probably for the public it's kind of this oddit...
KENNY MAYNE Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
ADAM ANT Alcatraz, the federal prison with a name like the blare of a trombone, is a black molar in the jawbo...
THOMAS E. GADDIS It was like a Turkish prison.
CHARLES HALL A prison made of steel and stone I can endure, and have endured, but never could I survive being loc...
BOBBY W. MILLER Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watchin...
TOD GOLDBERG Now we just wait and see what happens.
GEORGE TAYLOR One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in tha...
C.S. LEWIS I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's just like being in a hotel,
JAMES REYNOLDS I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
ANAïS NIN She felt that she was in a prison, behind bars. She couldn't stand being caged any longer.
COLIN CAMPBELL Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to co...
YOLANDI VISSER "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison."
CHARLES DICKENS In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Being near him was like being in a cloud, making my vision blur and taking away some of reality's ha...
LAUREL ULEN CURTIS Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutan...
ANNA PAQUIN I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been...
RICHARD DREYFUSS Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR We understood we were trapped. We just had to wait for a decision.
GENNADY BOLONIN There's no sense in being frustrated. I have to wait anyway. I'm just glad I made it this far just t...
DERROL MCINTYRE Don’t wait for respect, just act like an idiot and everyone will respect you.
VIKRANT PARSAI Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expec...
DAVID EISENBERG I definitely feel like I'm ready. I can't wait until tomorrow ... . I just can't wait for it to happ...
EMILY HUGHES I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of bei...
JOHN TRUDELL I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in priso...
DANIEL BERRIGAN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW In particular, we are pleased that the new generation 3 Series has been well-received and continues ...
WOLFGANG SCHLIMME Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of t...
GEORGE FOREMAN Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my d...
S. C. GWYNNE It's just sad that his life has spiraled down to the point where in all likelihood he's going to go ...
MORLEY PITT The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW We just have to be patient and wait for our chances.
KIRK MALTBY Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI I just like being present.
THEO JAMES I just don't like being overweight.
DAVID DUFFIELD I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen d...
FRED KOREMATSU If they could just walk out of the house and get on the bus every 15 minutes and not have to wait be...
FRANZ KOLBJORNSEN Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it can't even escape from being found by its like. E...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Just wait, it's going to be beautiful. You're going to like it.
ERIK PETERSON I think we just need to take a step backwards and wait a while on this proposal.
DENI SCRUDATO Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
PETER O'TOOLE A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas a...
DEBASISH MRIDHA We're not being elusive, ... I think we have to wait until we're absolutely backed into a corner.
MIKE PIAZZA If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rathe...
BELLE BOYD There was no alcohol for us. We were in a red prison.
EDUARD LIMONOV We were really looking forward to the opportunity to play Buchanan and seeing just where we were. I ...
JUDY SHAUBACH In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
NELSON MANDELA A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
ARTIE LANGE The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I just really like being a teacher, and being a police officer is pretty close to being a teacher.
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