Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
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There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say "hi" to everybody.
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You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.
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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
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I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.
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Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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By the time I was 18, I had discovered that I didn't want to be an actress forever. I've always been basically a shy person and it was hard being 'on' all the time. So finally, I just walked away. I've never regretted that decision.
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Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
