Maxine Peake Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.
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Crying does not equal good acting.
