Maxine Peake Quotes
I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
Maxine Peake
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
Rae Carson
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
Maisie Williams
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Joanne Rowling
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
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I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Inka dinka doo, a dinka dee, A dinka doo. Oh, what a tune for crooning. Inka dinka doo, a dinka dee A dinka doo. It's got the whole world spooning.
Jimmy Durante
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
Bill Keller
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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
John Hughes
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
Yann Martel
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I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
Maxine Peake