Mark Gatiss Quotes
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Failure is always an option.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.
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Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'
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I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
