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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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.
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Only the mad girls chase me, I think.
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The human element and human judgment around understanding the physics of machines and the process, and how those come together, I think there's going to be a balance we all need to figure out how to strike.
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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.
