Mark Gatiss Quotes

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

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• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Television
  • Youth

• Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Pay
  • Well

• I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Office
  • Got
  • Off

• Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Done
  • You
  • Stronger

• If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Wish
  • Language

• I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Help
  • Trust
  • Cricket

• To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Real
  • Society

• I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Confidence
  • Courage
  • Balance

• Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.

  

  Matt Busby
  • Job
  • Tired

• I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Why
  • Business
  • Fun

• I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Time
  • Small

• Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Job
  • Professor
  • Hire

• Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Respect
  • Reverence
  • Orders

• I always like that sort of tomboy aesthetic.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • Aesthetic

• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  

  John Milton
  • Time

• I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

  

  Mark Gatiss