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As you get older, you get stuck in your ways just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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