Gary Ross Quotes
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
