Maxine Peake Quotes

I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go, 'Hello, is this your daughter? She's got three blue lipsticks and a moisturiser from Boots in her bag.' We just used to nick crap. Not even stuff we wanted.

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Joe Rogan

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As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

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I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

John Dyer

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People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

Steven Sinofsky

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Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Simon Conway Morris

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As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

Trevor Noah

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I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

Roxane Gay

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I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

Miguel

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

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Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.

Domhnall Gleeson

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Remember, Obama was elected by a bigger margin than George W. Bush. He deserves to have his appointees, and he deserves to have votes on the issues, to have the government function, and to fight for the policies on which he was elected.

Donna Brazile

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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Christopher McQuarrie

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