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I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.

~Frank D. Gilroy

Topics: Always Anything Anything Else Author Career Case Else Impact Introduced Like More One Thing Other Play Room Roses Something Sometime Subject Than Thing Walk

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I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.

~Frank D. Gilroy

Topics: Amount Could How Idea Ideas Made Movies Novels Play Realize Remember Time Tremendous Tremendous Amount Wait Wasted Would I Remember

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I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.

~Frank D. Gilroy

Topics: Being Believe Draws Play Something Time True Works

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You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.

~Frank D. Gilroy

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Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.

~Frank D. Gilroy

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The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

~Frank D. Gilroy

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I think of myself as a storyteller.

~Frank D. Gilroy

Topics: Myself Storyteller Think I Think

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You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.

~Frank D. Gilroy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 13th, 1925

Died: September 12th, 2015

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