Frank D. Gilroy Quotes
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
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I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
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Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
