Viggo Mortensen Quotes
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was rubbish at school.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Good material is good material.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'
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Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
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Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.
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It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.
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The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
