Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.
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When did ignorance become a point of view?
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
