Viggo Mortensen Quotes
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.
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There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
