Matt Dillon Quotes
I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.
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There is always pressure in football.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I was raised in a very blue-collar family.
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My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
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I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
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You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.
