Maxine Peake Quotes
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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I would like this house to join me in paying fulsome tribute to our scientists, engineers and defence personnel whose singular achievements have given us a renewed sense of national pride and self confidence.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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We are all protective over the things we love.
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My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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When I'm not acting, I don't feel like an actor.
