Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I like things simple.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
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Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
