Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
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I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.
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I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.
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For me, the character I play is most important.
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Computers make people stupid.
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Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
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To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
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She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
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Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
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We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
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Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.
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Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.
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I prefer writing originals.
