Maxine Peake Quotes

I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Little

• I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • School
  • Dream
  • Dance

• If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Day
  • Lucky

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • America
  • War

• Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Beauty

• There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Should
  • Place
  • Policy

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Power
  • Debt

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Media

• You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Need

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• Together, the Jenner sisters have left their mark on the jewelry and fashion accessories industry, first with The Kendall & Kylie Collection at PacSun in 2012, the Metal Haven jewelry collection in 2013, and a line of shoes and handbags for Steve Madden in 2014.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Together
  • Fashion
  • Shoes

• I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Small
  • Rest

• I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

  

  Keegan Bradley
  • Different
  • Important
  • Wind

• Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

  

  Liana Liberato
  • Great
  • Job
  • Moments

• There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • World
  • Future

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Great
  • Judge