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 was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
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I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.
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If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?
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Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I've turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.
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Children make you want to start life over.
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I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.
