Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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Creativity has no boundaries.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.
