Maxine Peake Quotes
Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.
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Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
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I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.
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Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.
