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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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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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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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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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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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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The alphabet is an aggressive and militant absorber and transformer of culture, as Harold Innis was the first to show. (p. 56)
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I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify in the grand jury and I felt terrible because she'd been through the loss of her sister, this horrible accident at Christmas that killed her brother, and her mother was in the hospital. I was trying to make her understand that I didn't want her to be untruthful to the grand jury and if her memory was different than mine, it was fine, just go in there and tell them what she thought. So that's all I remember.
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
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The proportion of women attracted to the Islamic State is likely to be less than that in other militant organisations, such as the Tamil Tigers, the PKK, and the IRA. Undoubtedly, their roles within the Islamic State are much more confined by the rigid gender divisions under their ultraconservative rulings.
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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.
