Mark Gatiss Quotes
For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
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I am a beggar for the poor. Serving humanity is the biggest Jihad.
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As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.
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When you suddenly become successful, the change is enormous, both financially and in terms of recognition and the way people treat you. I found that hard to deal with. I got very guilty about it, and I think I put up obstacles to prevent myself enjoying it.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.
