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.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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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?'
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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.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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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.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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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.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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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.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.
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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
