Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
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• I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
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• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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• I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
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• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
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• You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
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• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
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• When did you last have fun being dignified?

  

  Kate Reardon
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• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

  

  Barry Levinson
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• I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
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• When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

  

  Gail Collins
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• Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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