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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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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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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That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
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And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.
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If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists.
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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.
