Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

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• I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Choice
  • Grace

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cricket

• I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Pain
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Knows
  • Selling
  • Salesman

• I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Ideas

• I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Important
  • Legacy

• After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Learn
  • Piano
  • Orchestra

• Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Design
  • Forget
  • Management

• Picasso was telling Madame C- that he could paint anywhere and anyhow. That nothing in the world could stop him. That even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit. He said he could paint then and there if he wanted to, or if he felt like it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • World
  • Stop

• Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Free

• Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Time
  • World
  • Humanity

• I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • World
  • Real
  • Value

• Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy - the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps - to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • American
  • Light
  • Moments

• I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

  

  William Sleator
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Enough

• '253' has a little bit of time in it, but basically, everything's happening at once in a small space, and you're exploring the space. 'What happens next?' is not the question that you're asking or answering. It's where do you go, and why should you go there?

  

  Geoff Ryman
  • Time
  • Why
  • Small

• Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Good
  • Long
  • Ifs

• I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • People
  • Behinds
  • Rewriting