Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
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When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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My mom always says, "Pack your smile," but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food. He said, "For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they've seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that."
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Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
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Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.
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My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
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The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.
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Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.
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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second
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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
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What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
