Dean O'Gorman Quotes
Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I've been to Chennai several times for modelling shows and shooting ad films. It's a great place to come back to because the people are warm and welcoming. I've never had the opportunity to actually see the city, but whatever places I've been to have really caught my attention.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.
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I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
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O Paradise! O Paradise!Who doth not crave for rest?Who would not seek the happy landWhere they that love are blest?
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That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
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All good work is done in defiance of management.
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Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
