Maxine Peake Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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My health is fine.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
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Monsters are very real. But they're not just creatures. Monsters are everywhere. They're people. They're nightmares...They are the things that we harbor within ourselves. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked once within the soul of a man.
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The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.
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I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.
