Matt Dillon Quotes

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Matt Dillon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1964

Topics

PoliticsYouKnowContradictions

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

John Abraham

WorkPeoplePerformanceAppreciate

Everybody has fights with their sister.

Joe Williams

SisterEverybodyFights

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

LiveOpportunityHistoryJournalism

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee

AmericanLookMoviesTryBigApply

One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.

Amanda Foreman

BeginningManBookEndJudgingTalk

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

Ron Ben-Israel

BeautyCookingTogetherYouSugar

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Rowan Williams

AgeCultureProblemsImpactAnxiety

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Michel Hazanavicius

MusicSilencePaintingLanguageLike

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Monica Bellucci

AmericanWaySameOverHappenOut

As designers, we have a great responsibility.

Dieter Rams

GreatResponsibilityDesigners

Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

Christina Aguilera

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