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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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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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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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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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've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.
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There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
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When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
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Going on means going far, going far means returning.
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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.
