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Gary Ross Quotes

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Gary Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 3, 1956

Topics

Me Interesting Back Kind Lived Fail

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

John Burroughs

Nature Soul Solitude Talk Ourselves

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

John Bercow

Children I Am House Say Never Tell

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

Max Martin

Music Community School First Our

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Michael Gove

Life Learning Children Moment School

It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.

John Quelch

World Impossible You Class Compete

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

Learning Writing Done Write Right

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

Tom Stoppard

Truth Great Everyone Up Theater

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

Mitch Hedberg

Woman Dating Me Saying Mad Know

I'm married to the girl that I first went out with when I was 16. We were on and off for years; now we're married with a kid, so I don't have that many exes.

Johnny Flynn

Girl Now First Kid Years Out

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Good Money Teamwork Impossible Reach

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

August Wilson

Nature Time People Reading Find Act

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Peter Shaffer

Music Character Key Rhetoric Piece