William Mortensen Quotes

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

William Mortensen

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Growth

• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Everyone
  • Terrorism
  • Hamas

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• You have to know you can first. How comes later.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• God is decisively drawn to the humble.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
  • Humble
  • Drawn

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Literature

• You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Happy

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• I actually don't wear fragrance. I always feel like I smell cheap. I guess I just haven't found one that's not overpowering or too sweet. Even when I try one of the super masculine scents, I just think, 'I don't want to smell like a man.' Besides, I like my own scent.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Sweet

• You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Character

• It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Time
  • Hard
  • I Think

• Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

  

  William Mortensen
  • Important
  • Emotion
  • Expression