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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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We're just happy, ... We wanted to win this game so bad. I've got to take my hat off to my teammates. They played big. They really picked me up tonight.
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All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.
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I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.
