Maxine Peake Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
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Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'
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Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.
