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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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.
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What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.
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There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
