Gary Ross Quotes

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

Gary Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Jess Walter

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The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

Michael Eisner

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I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

Solange Knowles

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I don't like singing before noon.

Sting

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I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

Sigrid

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

Robin Morgan

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I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

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The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.

Lizzy Caplan

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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Lloyd Kaufman

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It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

Jason Mraz

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I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.

Jonny Weston

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I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

Chris Martin

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