Maxine Peake Quotes
I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.
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I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself.
