Maxine Peake Quotes

My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs.

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMyselfMeTroubleKindGet

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

Jill Lepore

ChildrenChildhoodPeopleResearch

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

John Hench

ChildrenRealityDoingKindGames

Too many people go to university.

Michael Gove

PeopleGoUniversityToo Many People

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

Steven Johnson

InnovationEyesIsolationSometimes

I dress like a bum all the time. I'm a pretty casual fella.

Travis Fimmel

TimeDressCasualPrettyBumLike

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

Tom Paulin

LondonSolidaritySenseSubmission

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Ron Suskind

GovernmentYouKindWayBecomeFact

I'd love to work with Woody Allen.

Michael Pena

WorkLoveWoodyWoody AllenAllen

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

Liz Phair

PeopleFeelCompetitiveSellRecords

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

Christine Quinn

HistoryBestBabyCornerLines

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Anne Sweeney

WorkGoodLeaderGreatFocusJob

In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love.

Pope Benedict XVI

LoveHeartYouCertaintyAlwaysUs

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