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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Grateful

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• You can't tag me as a regional actress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Me
  • Actress

• 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.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• 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.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Home
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Art
  • Journalism

• 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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Great
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Nature

• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • History
  • Scary
  • Gossip

• Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Community
  • Europe

• The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Real
  • Experience
  • America

• I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

  

  Ben Rector
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

  

  John Cena
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Wall

• Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

  

  Alexander Kluge
  • People

• We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Education
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Dad