Burn Gorman Quotes

#1. He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

Dylan Moran

#2. I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

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#3. Death kills us once; worry kills us every day.

Marty Rubin

#4. The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Henry Ford

#5. I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.

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#6. And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality ...

Agatha Christie

#7. I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

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#8. I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

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#9. I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

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#10. Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.

Bell Hooks

#11. It is a notably obscene crime of our language that educate is not an intransitive verb.

Benjamin Hale

#12. I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'

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#13. I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

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#14. If anything, his parables guarantee the failure not only of his characters, but of readers wishing to abstract any lessons applicable to their own lives. Failure, it seems, is Kafka's true subject.

Franz Kafka

#15. The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

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#16. I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

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#17. Maybe I've used up my love luck.

Rae Carson

#18. In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology.

Charles Krauthammer

#19. I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

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