Matt Dillon Quotes
I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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The world needs some help.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.
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Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
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I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
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I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.
