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Frank D. Gilroy [1925-2015] American

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Playwright

Frank Daniel Gilroy was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play The Subject Was Roses in 1965.

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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.		101
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.		102
I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.		103
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.		104
Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.		105
The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.		106
I think of myself as a storyteller.		107
You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.		108

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