Maxine Peake Quotes
Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.Maxine Peake
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant -
Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
Madhur Mittal -
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams -
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
Viggo Mortensen -
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
J. B. Smoove
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo -
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
Orson Welles -
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
Magnus Carlsen -
The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
Edmund Morgan -
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
Patrick Rothfuss
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
Gary David Goldberg -
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh -
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus -
In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
Ian Mckellen -
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Patrice O'Neal
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You are intellect, I am life!
Margaret Fuller -
As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.
Lisa Ling -
It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.
Edward P. Jones -
I am what I amI am my own special creationSo come take a lookGive me the hook or the ovationIt's my world that I want to have a little pride inMy world and it's not a place I have to hide inLife's not worth a damn till you can sayHey world I am what I am.
Jerry Herman -
Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.
Maxine Peake