Maxine Peake Quotes
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.
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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?
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As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.
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I'm a big comfort eater, so if I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll just stuff my face.
