Matt Dillon Quotes

One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

Matt Dillon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.

Joe Morton

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Robert Ballard

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You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

Ron DeSantis

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If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?

Mike Davidson

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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Julia Child

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Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.

Jason Kander

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Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Jon McGregor

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Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

Cliff Stearns

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I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Branford Marsalis

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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

Alice Walker

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