Dan Gilroy Quotes
In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
 
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	Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.   
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	In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.   
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	Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?   
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	If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.   
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	When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.   
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	I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.   
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	The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.   
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	I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.   
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	I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.   
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	A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.   
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	I have always loved animals since I was very young.   
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	I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.   
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	Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.   
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	I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.   
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	The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.   
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	One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.   
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	Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.   
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	I like to run fast but not drive.   
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	We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.   
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	I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or go snowboarding a couple hours away.   
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	If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.   
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	Don't treat animals as animals. Treat them as living beings. That's what they are.   
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	My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.   
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	In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					