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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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It's easy to get depressed and think, Well, what's the point? But it's the same as, Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights. You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.
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I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
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That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.
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