Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
