Maxine Peake Quotes
I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
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I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
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We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.
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At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.
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There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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My closet is like Bart Simpson's.
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As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.
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With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
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I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.
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I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.
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I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.
