Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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If you really want something, you'll make it work.
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That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.
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When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
