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.
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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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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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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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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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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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If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
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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.
