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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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I understand that there are thick, dark circles under my eyes. I have grown to appreciate them. I have noticed that my nose grows a little hookier on a near-monthly basis. That's fine. I know there are wrinkles ready to stake their claim as full time residents on my forehead any moment now. My dad has those, too, and I find that endearing.
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Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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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.
