Maxine Peake Quotes

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

Maxine Peake

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• I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Movie

• What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Great
  • History
  • Moral

• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Write
  • Most

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Women
  • Think
  • Same

• I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • May
  • Walking

• Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Words
  • Me
  • Discipline

• Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Up
  • Good
  • Nature

• Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Planning

• Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Guy
  • Sun

• If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Faith

• When I look out my window, Many sights to see. And when I look in my window, So many different people to be...

  

  Donovan
  • People
  • Different

• I'm so grateful this day has ended well.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Different

• The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

  

  Win Butler
  • Art

• Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Good

• I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Road

• Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Society
  • Government
  • Safety

• Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Good
  • Picture

• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Culture

• The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • World
  • Music
  • Reflection

• What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

  

  Maxine Peake