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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You either make dust or eat dust.
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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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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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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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Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
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I don't think malls are going to go away. People still need somewhere to go, but they do have to evolve.
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If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go – within 10 minutes – to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
