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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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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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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The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.
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Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.
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A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written - Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English.
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.
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I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.
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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.
