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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In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.
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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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If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
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Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.
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Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.
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I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older.
