Dan Gilroy
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I really don't care about that. My thin... ATTICUS SHAFFER In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, ... ODEYA RUSH JIMMY JOHNSON Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking ... FELICITY JONES JOHN WATERS A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force. WILLIAM BLUM With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They... CLAIRE FOY CHANNING TATUM WALTER BECKER SYLVIA BROWNE I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You ar... JAMI ATTENBERG DAVID MARANISS Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you ar... JAMIE DIMON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON SANDRA OH NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or ... DAN GILROY I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes t... KEVIN PLANK TAYLOR SWIFT I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them... ALAN JACKSON Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends wh... AMANDA BYNES Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies. AUSTIN STOWELL IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM JACKIE EVANCHO GRIZZ CHAPMAN ALISTAIR COOKE What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're n... EDDIE KAYE THOMAS A person's character is judged not by how they treat someone who can give them everything, but by ho... RAJ REDDY The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn&... PETER O'TOOLE NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON HELEN MIRREN Even people who work with me don´t know who I´m dating. I just don´t talk about it so that I won�... PEDRO ALMODOVAR I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't... MATT GONZALEZ JONI MITCHELL You've got two choices when picking a Treasury Secretary -- either someone like Rubin, who understan... CHRIS LOW DAVID CROSBY I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who ... MISSI PYLE MICHAEL J. FOX TIG NOTARO VIRAT KOHLI Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn'... GIORGIO MORODER For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotiona... TIMOTHY D. SNYDER No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. KATE BECKINSALE DAVID ARCHULETA Don’t let people who don’t care about you, manipulate your mind, feelings and emotions or contro... KARON WADDELL JERRY LEWIS I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who i... 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JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat... NOLAN NORTH JOHN LYDON A. A. MILNE Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're... PAULY SHORE As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl... FREDDIE HIGHMORE BOB DYLAN JIMMY FALLON You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they&#... DARIN STRAUSS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER DOLLY PARTON Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think t... MICHAEL STUHLBARG MAXINE KUMIN JULIANNE MOORE JUNOT DIAZ
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