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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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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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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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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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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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.
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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.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.
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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
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We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.
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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
