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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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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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.
