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.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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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.
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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.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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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.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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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.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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He wanted to laugh. He ought to have corrected the man. “Yes,” he finally said. “I do things with stuff. How ever did you know?” “Maybe this is for the best,” Fairfield said. “You might know of a whole range of cures that I have not been able to access.
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To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
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It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
