Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I will keep working hard!
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
