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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
-
I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
-
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
-
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.
-
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
-
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.
-
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
-
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.
-
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
-
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
-
There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
-
U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
-
I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.
-
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
-
The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.
-
If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
-
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.
