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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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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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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Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
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Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.
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I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.
