Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."
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I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
