Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.
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It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.
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You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you," Temujin reminded him softly.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.
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No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.
