Rory Kinnear
English actor
Finding your place.
What does love feel like?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
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Noel Clarke
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Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
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Warm and bubbly.
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A warm, frayed, soft blanket.
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View profile →Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
To my father, for not telling him the truth when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and going along with the family lie that he had hepatitis, when he knew he didn’t. At the age of 17, I lacked the courage and strength to stand up for what I believed.
Less work, more living.
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.
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