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.
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
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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.
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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.
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Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
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It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)
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I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
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I was always bit of a jock.
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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.
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Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries.
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I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.
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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.'
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I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.
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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.
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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.
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Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.
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On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.
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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.
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I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
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There are so many great singers out there.
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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.
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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
