Maxine Peake Quotes
Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
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Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
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Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.
