Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
H. R. Giger -
No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
Octavio Paz -
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
Gavin Bryars -
That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
Lady Gaga -
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
Lord Byron -
I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
Alison Brie
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Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.
Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz -
I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
Steve Perry -
I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.
Cobie Smulders -
I have always loved fashion, trends, style, make-up and hair, but yes, some sort of a transformation truly happens when I play a 'bahu'. That's when I have to wear brown lenses to cover my green eyes, colour my hair dark, wear saris, and surprise myself that I can pull this off, too.
Krystle D'Souza -
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
Alexander Payne
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Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.
Alicia Garza -
On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.
Poul Anderson -
This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy - deep down. May you be happy too. I'm going to Fontainebleau on Monday and I'll be back here Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. All is well.
Katherine Mansfield -
Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue; Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!
William Cowper -
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
Virginia Woolf -
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
James Stockdale
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Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you've got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
Deena Kastor -
There are so many great singers out there.
Jessie Ware -
I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.
Blake Mycoskie -
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
Tony Gilroy