Mark Gatiss Quotes
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
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Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
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Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
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Gay rights are human rights.
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I love '80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.
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I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
