Martha Plimpton Quotes
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
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I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral I'm my only friend of mine And love is just a piece of time in the world in the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again.
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The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.
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The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.
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Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.
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I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
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It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
