Maxine Peake Quotes

It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective.

Maxine Peake

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

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  • Live
  • Like
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• We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Comfortable
  • Uncertainty

• I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Home
  • Help

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Money
  • Education
  • Programs

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Want
  • Clever

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • American
  • Chinese

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Power
  • Spiritual
  • Need

• I remember when I moved in you And the holy dove she was moving too, And every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • She
  • Remember
  • Single

• I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • World
  • She
  • Remember

• As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Time
  • Children
  • Future

• It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work