Maxine Peake Quotes
If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.
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When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.
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First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.
