Mark Gatiss Quotes
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The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.
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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.
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Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
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At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
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I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
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I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.
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I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.
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Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.
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Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
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I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
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I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.