One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was fr... -Viggo Mortensen

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for...
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. O...
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 expe...
In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise mad...
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 atte...
I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only on...
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever....
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is p...
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but...

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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all....
Prosperity is the best protector of principle....
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them....
Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can....
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'...
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws....
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last....