“I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.” PeopleThinkingLongMadeImportantSometimesReasonFilmChoicesTakenStreetsComplimentSurvived Author:Matt Dillon
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.” IfsLittlesEnoughFactsAbleLastsDealsTakenChildhoodInformationCollegeUniversityThese DaysContemplatingGoing OutSurvivedColleges And UniversitiesLamentation Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.” MenWorldHas BeensWarHandsExistenceTakenPolicyThreatSpeciesSevenMortalsForeign PolicySurvived Author:John F. Kennedy