Mark Gatiss Quotes
Grooming-wise, it is now a constant battle as I progressively turn into my father. I have to keep on top of ear and nose hair - things you never believe will happen to you. Suddenly I have a shaving brush in my ear and I don't know where it's come from, and the more hair I take the out, the more it surges back.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
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Grooming-wise, it is now a constant battle as I progressively turn into my father. I have to keep on top of ear and nose hair - things you never believe will happen to you. Suddenly I have a shaving brush in my ear and I don't know where it's come from, and the more hair I take the out, the more it surges back.
