Maxine Peake Quotes
I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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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.
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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.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
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I used to hate my legs, but I learned to embrace them. They may be bigger than the average person's, but they're beautiful. I love them, and I wear short shorts all of the time.
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Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck.
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I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
