Mark Gatiss Quotes

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

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• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Sincere

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Room

• If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • May
  • Look
  • Year

• People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Work

• When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Comedy

• They have agreed to donate another 2 million courses, that is 20 million doses, for use by affected countries who reported human cases to reduce morbidity and mortality and to delay the spread of the infection.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Mortality
  • Infection
  • Morbidity

• I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Great
  • Power