Maxine Peake Quotes

When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 14, 1974

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It doesn't take science to know that when you have head-to-head collisions, there's going to be some effect.

Jim Brown

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I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.

Jeremy Clarkson

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I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

John David Washington

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I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

Michael Chang

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

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I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.

Stewart Butterfield

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Robert Frost

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To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

Rod Taylor

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When I got to the stage, it was like a release, you know what I mean? Because it was like, 'Oh, people like me. People like me. They're listening to what I have to say. They're not judging me on how I look; they're judging me on what I'm saying.' So to me, that's what's worth it, and that's what comedians have.

Jay Pharoah

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When I hear senior actors discuss their experiences, I can relate to them.

Dhanush

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Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'

Deeyah Khan

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I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

Chris Paul

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