Maxine Peake Quotes

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

Maxine Peake

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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

• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Respect
  • Alone
  • Singing

• 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
  • Girl
  • Earth
  • 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

• By all that's good and glorious.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Good

• 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

• When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • People
  • Live
  • Energy

• There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • People

• Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Time
  • Music
  • Progress

• The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

  

  Mel Odom
  • People
  • World
  • Lying

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

  

  Maxine Peake