Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
