Maxine Peake Quotes
As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I am healthy and happy.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
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In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton's focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I'm ready to encourage and support people on their journey because I've been encouraged and supported. I just hope I make people proud.
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I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
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As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.
