Viggo Mortensen Quotes
A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
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I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
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Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
