Viggo Mortensen Quotes
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.
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We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
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Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
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I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
