Maxine Peake Quotes
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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.
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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.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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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.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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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.
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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!
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
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When I look out my window, Many sights to see. And when I look in my window, So many different people to be...
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I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
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Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.
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I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
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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.
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A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
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It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him Castro and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.
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We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
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What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.
