Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.
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You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
