Corey Stoll Quotes
The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.
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The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.
