Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I trust no one totally.
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Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
