Ricky Dillard Quotes
I was locked in. I’m locked in. I’m sold out. I’m like He’s stuck with me and I am not going anywhere.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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I was locked in. I’m locked in. I’m sold out. I’m like He’s stuck with me and I am not going anywhere.
