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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Viggo Mortensen

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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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