Maxine Peake Quotes
Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I think I thrive under pressure.
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Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.
