Dan Gilroy Quotes
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
