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 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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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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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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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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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.
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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
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I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.
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The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.
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Globalization was exerting a dis-inflationary impact.
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I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.
