Maxine Peake Quotes
I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.
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In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.
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I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die.
