Matt Dillon Quotes
I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
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Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
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I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
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My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.
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Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.
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I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
