Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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I've never been on a date.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
