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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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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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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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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That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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Wipro is one of the fastest growing companies regionally and globally, and I am personally very excited with our journey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.
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Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.
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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
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The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
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You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
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There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
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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.
