Frank D. Gilroy Quotes
I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Every summer's mine.
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I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
