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Gary Reilly, born in 1945, is a renowned television writer. His works cover a variety of themes and are known for their unique narrative style and profound character development.

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All Bigs Cab Driving Fake Forget Fourteen Ifs Novel Reality Stills

Famous Gary Reilly Quotes

“When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were “up to something.”

Dating

Book:Ticket To Hollywood

Source: Ticket To Hollywood

“I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.”

English Major Job Requirements

Book:The Heart of Darkness Club

Source: The Heart of Darkness Club

“TGIF," I said aloud even though it was only Thursday. But I was alone in my apartment as far as I knew. I deliberately avoid making whimsical incorrect statements in public. You would be surprised at how many people get irritated if you say "TGIF" on the wrong day. By "people" I mean "English professors." To most English professors it would be inconceivable to say, "Thank God it's Friday" on a Thursday. I don't know if that's because they are strict adherents to the rules of language or if they are mentally ill.”

Tgif

Book:Doctor Lovebeads

Source: Doctor Lovebeads

“I hate it when I get mad at myself because it's impossible to turn on my heel and walk away in a huff and refuse to speak to me again. I've tried it plenty of times, believe me.”

Dealing With Anger

Book:The Heart of Darkness Club

Source: The Heart of Darkness Club

“I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.”

Felt Land Fake Fraud Cousin Phony

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“Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”

Years Long Understood Complexes Explanation Formulas Bores Mathematician Fourteen Subtlety Ratios Bores You Hobos

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“I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted” category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold” or “unsold.” But that's just my own filing system.”

Made Stills Fall My Own Categories Screenplays Filing

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“My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.”

Writing Stills Dream Bigs Half Novel Ought Ten Computer Faster Ibm Processors

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“Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.”

Audience Rivers Hats Magician Gorgeous Rabbits Assistants Cab Minus Capes Top Hats

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“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.”

Trying Use Reality Normal Sentences Facing Reality

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“Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.”

Pairs Cop Adverbs

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“I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.”

Debt Broke

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“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”

Stories Bigs Moving Artist Break Poet Novelists Short Story Break Through Story Writers

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“... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.”

Kind Rich Golden Gripping Jogging Leashes Retrievers Golden Retrievers

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“I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.”

Ifs Needs Individual Becoming Fake Acquire Bottles Bullying Bully Faceless

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“I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.”

Years Firsts Heart Pay Wonder Dangerous First Time Driving Instance Hills Occupation Fourteen Capitol Get Money Cab Robbery Pros And Cons Capitol Hill Bank Robbery

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“One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.”

Ifs Reality Forget Existence Novel One Thing College Baffled

Author:Gary Reilly

“Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.”

“I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.”

Way Dancing Driving Elephants Circus

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“She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.”

Balance Technique Confused

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“It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.”

Writing Humans Ideas Stories Might Loses Human Beings Forget Perspective Someday Funny Things

Author:Gary Reilly

About the Author

Born: 1945
Known for: Television writer
Quotes: 21

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