Mark Gatiss Quotes
I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
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His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.
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The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?
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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
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I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.