Viggo Mortensen Quotes
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
Yuna
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
Om Puri
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Adam Grant
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
Gabrielle Reece
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian Mckellen
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
Carlos Fuentes
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen
