Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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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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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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My grandfather was a commander in the Navy. He was very proud of his service, and he lived his entire life as though he was still serving.
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I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
