Maxine Peake Quotes
I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad!
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work.
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I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
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It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
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I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad!
