John Corey Whaley Quotes
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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I'm always working on music.
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
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Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
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When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
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I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.
