Dan Gilroy Quotes

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Tough

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Giving
  • Hate

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Different
  • Think
  • Respect

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Now

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Advantage
  • Stardom

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Night
  • Man
  • Stars

• I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • People
  • Wish

• The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture

• 'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

  

  Jim Beaver
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Technology

• Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

  

  E. W. Scripps
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fear
  • Idea
  • Television