Gary Ross Quotes

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

Gary Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

John Baldacci

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Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.

Jennifer Warnes

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I felt a little anxious/nervous representing a real person in a Spike Lee film.

John David Washington

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Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Robert M. Gates

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I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

Angelina Jolie

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People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Stephen Breyer

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What I like about my character: Luke Cage is a person first and foremost. We do have other black superheroes, but he's important because he's touchable. Luke has moments when he has to try to forget his pain, but then, unlike the rest of us, he's also able to channel that frustration into fighting bad guys. Real martyrs aren't trying to be martyrs.

Mike Colter

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If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

Clint Eastwood

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Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Chuck Grassley

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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Bob Mould

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Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Alfred Hershey

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Susan B. Anthony

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