Matt Dillon Quotes
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
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I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
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People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
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When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.
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I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.