Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
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I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.
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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.
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You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
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There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
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I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.
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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
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The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
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My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
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I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
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I worked for a lot of directors.
