Maxine Peake Quotes

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Maxine Peake

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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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Feel

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Very

• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Paint

• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Rude

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • One-Man

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Personality
  • Speed
  • Facebook

• If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Person
  • Goal

• I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Find
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Hope
  • Like
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Jack Kroll
  • Nature
  • Joy
  • Changes

• I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

  

  Jason Scott Lee

• I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

  

  Danila Kozlovsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • Black

• My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Body

• I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Action

• The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

  

  William James
  • Reflection
  • Instinct
  • Pope

• Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

  

  Maxine Peake