Martha Plimpton Quotes
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
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In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.
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Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm.
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No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency.
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Eli had a great game today; He took what was out there and didn't force anything. He doesn't get real excited; there is more than one way to lead a team … and he showed that today.
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He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give her something, charity for instance.
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It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.
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What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?
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They have to get authority from the President through their department heads.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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Who owns your body? You or the state?
