Viggo Mortensen Quotes
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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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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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.
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I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
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I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
