John Corey Whaley Quotes
I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.
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Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.
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When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!
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Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
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I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.
