Maxine Peake Quotes
It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.
Quotes to Explore
-
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
-
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
-
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
-
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
-
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
-
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
-
It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
-
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
-
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
-
First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
-
There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
-
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
-
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
-
Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
-
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
-
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
-
You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.
-
A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.
-
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
-
What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
-
It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.
