Maxine Peake Quotes
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
Rachel Platten -
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
Gary Numan -
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis -
I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
Orlando Jones -
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
Felicity Jones
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
Oscar Levant -
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
Ian Anderson -
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
Adam McKay -
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
Gary Numan -
The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
Wayne Rooney
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Baldwin Spencer -
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
Karl Pilkington -
'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.
Zara Larsson -
I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.
Patrick Kane -
It is possible for political forces to agree.
Felipe VI of Spain -
I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
Gary Sherman
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson -
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
Harold Pinter -
And send him many years of sunshine days!
William Shakespeare -
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Edsger Dijkstra -
Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
Eileen Myles -
The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday.
Maxine Peake