Gary Reilly Quotes

That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

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• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Computers

• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Act

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Realize

• My private life stays private.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Private Life
  • Stays

• I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Job
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History
  • Happy

• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  

  Max Ernst
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Painting

• There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Evil
  • Doubt

• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Interpreted

• I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kids

• That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Reality
  • Working
  • Facing