John Corey Whaley Quotes
My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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A good number of my friends are married, which seems very old-fashioned.
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My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
