Maxine Peake Quotes

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

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• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law
  • Light
  • Nutrition

• Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Simple
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Me

• What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Weird
  • Fly

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Always
  • Going

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Detail

• If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • You
  • Sorry
  • Seem

• The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Good
  • Power
  • English

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Day
  • Government
  • End

• Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Future
  • Glass
  • Rosy

• One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!

  

  Sarah Steele
  • People
  • Mom
  • Parent

• If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• Shine your light on love and truth and your Soul will glow.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Shine

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

  

  Maxine Peake