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.
Olivier Theyskens -
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.
Sam Walton -
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.
G. Edward Griffin -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
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.
Aaron Paul -
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Ted Allen
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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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
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.
Orson Welles -
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons -
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham Lincoln -
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Jack Ma
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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.
Zygmunt Bauman -
We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
Margrethe II of Denmark -
57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan Perlis -
When beginning the cold open with another person Please state your name for the camera.
Craig Ferguson -
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
Laurence Housman -
I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.
Charlene Tilton
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That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
Gloria Gaynor -
There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.
Lee Hall -
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older.
Maxine Peake