Maxine Peake Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.
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People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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His chutzpah and his imagination in the scams and stings he pulled off were so imaginative and so courageous. Amazing. I loved the fact that he could pull off all of those professions. In a way, he's sort of the anti-hero that you root for, even though you know he's going to have to pay a price and go to jail
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I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
