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Big payrolls can give you an advantage, but smart management always gives you an advantage,


Gary Gillette

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BRIAN ROBERTSON It is an incalculable advantage.
MARK DUNKERLEY Every disadvantage has an advantage
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DONNA NICHOLSON We do have an advantage there.
BILL BAKAMUS That's an advantage of being older.
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DAZZLїиG_Бципу I wish that I could live without you
DAZZLїиG_Бципу You can't fix stupid you can educate an idiot but it won't make him smart.
ANDONI GARCIA Getting a chance to test what you've got against teams you don't normally play (is an advantage).
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HERB WEISBERG It's definitely an advantage being home again.
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CANDICE WIGGINS I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
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GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ...
GARY SHERMAN The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu...
GARY SHERMAN One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film...
GARY SHERMAN I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c...
GARY SHERMAN I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events t...
GARY SHERMAN