Maxine Peake Quotes

The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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BestIdiotPlaceNewsSayNever

I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.

Jeremy Luke

BusinessStruggleNew YorkEgoYoung

I've never been cool.

Max Martin

CoolNeverBeen

I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.

Andy Grammer

GirlSonMeSweetDoctorParent

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Jean Vanier

IgnorancePeopleEnvyBeliefOwn

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Michael Eric Dyson

GoodSocietyAmericanAmericaRacial

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Amy Waldman

ThinkingWantSittingWriteYears

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

John Quincy Adams

WeaknessChristianVicePrinciple

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

Roger Bannister

GreatPainChildPeopleMeEnergy

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WorkYouStopChangesOutWet

I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever.

Ross Butler

CreativeInspireFeelingWantBecome

I scored about 40 goals with Roma, so that's quite good.

Mohamed Salah

GoodGoalsQuiteAbout

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Susan Wiggs

NatureBelieveTeachersAnything

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