Kevin Dillon Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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I get really nervous, really anxious.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'
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My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.
