Viggo Mortensen Quotes

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

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• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Information

• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

  

  Edith Head
  • Woman
  • Dresses
  • Lady

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Spanish
  • Court
  • Jews

• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Myself

• I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Important
  • Political
  • Team

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Life
  • Age

• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Time
  • Failure

• I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• I am reminded of the words of Chairman Mao: It's always darkest before it goes completely black.

  

  John McCain
  • Black
  • Words

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know