John Corey Whaley Quotes
I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I have been helped over and over by wonderful men and women in my career. Men help each other all the time, and that kind of inclusion among women can create similar success.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself
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I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
