Viggo Mortensen Quotes
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
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I've done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.
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I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't even try.'
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
