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

• 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
  • 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

• 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

• Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue; Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!

  

  William Cowper
  • Giving
  • Glory
  • Dare

• Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Darkness
  • Discovery
  • Investigation

• Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Different
  • Education
  • Choices

• Nothing in life is promised except death.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Death
  • Nothing

• A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.

  

  Witney Carson
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Inspire

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

  

  Maxine Peake