Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
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I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
