Nicki Chapman Quotes

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

Nicki Chapman

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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Mom
  • Waiting

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Waiting
  • Now
  • Presence

• Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Water
  • Waiting

• The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • World
  • Choices

• I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Heart
  • Waiting
  • Cold

• I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Up
  • High
  • Political

• Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Waiting

• Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Waiting

• I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Real
  • Waiting

• I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Nerd

• I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals.

  

  James Lankford
  • Believe
  • Waiting

• You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Waiting

• I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Waiting

• Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Looks

• Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Enlightenment

• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Words

• It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

  

  Michiel Huisman
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• Poetry is a necessity of life.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Poetry Is

• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

  

  Nicki Chapman
  • Waiting
  • Jobs
  • Changed