Maxine Peake Quotes

I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.

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• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Star

• Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Earth
  • Girl
  • Proud

• I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Wish
  • Model

• We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Children
  • Know
  • Human

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Real
  • True
  • Hard

• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • American
  • Want
  • Path

• Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • Being
  • Seen

• I hate touchy-feely things.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Hate
  • Things

• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Great
  • Science
  • Action

• All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heaven
  • Fierce

• All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Truth
  • Struggle

• 'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Lost
  • Honor
  • Adventure

• I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anything else in my life. It's stress relief; it's good health. It's fun. It's alone time, for the most part.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  

  David Chalmers
  • Sympathy

• My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Night
  • Words
  • Dog

• For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

  

  Jacques Rivette
  • Up
  • Bad

• I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • People
  • Trying

• I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Makeup

• I'm in bed by 10, but I may not actually go to sleep until 11. It doesn't take long. I just breathe in and out maybe 10 times, and that does it.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Long
  • May
  • Sleep

• I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • English
  • Famous
  • Cowboy

• I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.

  

  Maxine Peake