Mark Gatiss Quotes
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.
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It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.
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My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
