Matt Dillon Quotes
The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
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Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
