Vilhjalmur Stefansson Quotes

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

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• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

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• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

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• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

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• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

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• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

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• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

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• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

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• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

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• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

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• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  

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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

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• I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

  

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• When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'

  

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• He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

  

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• 'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he.

  

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• Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

  

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• There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Imaginary