Corey Stoll Quotes
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I do love gymnastics, but it's such an intense sport and you have to be so committed. It's such a commitment that it's really hard to do anything else other than gymnastics as people progress.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
