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Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (/ˈviːɡoʊ ˈmɔːrtənsən/; Danish: [viːɡo ˈmɒːdn̩sn̩]; born October 20, 1958) is a Danish American actor, producer, author, musician, photographer, poet, and painter.

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The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

Change, Country, Europe, Progress, Strong

That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.

Alternatives, Calming, Mind, Satisfying, Say

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.

Conscious, Effort, Keep, Physically, Way

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Color, Director, Directors, Material, Raw Materials

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

Goal, Long, Obama, President, Same

[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning to end. It handles a variety of characters. You have six children who all stand on their own, they're all individuals. And it touches on a very real issue, which is the lack of cohesion and communication in America right now.

Children, Communication, Real, Scripts, Touches

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

Attention, People, Problem

With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

Character, Depending, Might, Possibilities, Talking

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

Danish, Emotions, English, Heart, Italian, Matter

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

Exposed, Film, Grain, Happens, Like, Naturally

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

Everything, Like, Stories, Wanting More, Wonder

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Afraid, Exception, Exceptions, Ought

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Hope, Optimist, Scripts, Stories, Story

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.

Artist, Book, Filtering, Paint, Way, Writing

In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

Career, Careers, Critic, Iraq, Letter, Two

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

Handed, Know, Knows, Rare, Script, Scripts

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Book, Drew, People, Publishing, Reading, Years

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.

Everyone, Honestly, Long, Please, Running, Thinking

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Alive, Art, Connected, Doe

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

Ask, Expectations, Given, Hands, Join, Understanding

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