Maxine Peake Quotes
I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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The wind in which the dead leaves blow. Here I inhale profounder strength And as I am, I speak and move And things are as I think they are And say they are on the blue guitar.
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
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There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
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I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
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If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.
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We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.
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Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that.
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When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.
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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
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I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
