Viggo Mortensen Quotes
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.
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There is a danger in democracy itself.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
