Mark Gatiss Quotes
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves...
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The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.
