Maxine Peake Quotes
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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When beginning the cold open with another person Please state your name for the camera.
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If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
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Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
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Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it. They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also the root cause of EC's success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.
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And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
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I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older.
