Martha Plimpton Quotes
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
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Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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The first half-dozen or so will be nice, but after that, I'm going to want a pro. (Referring to the Muslim concept of achieving 72 virgins upon arrival in heaven).
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I don't believe that lack of intelligence and appreciation for lowbrow comedy go hand-in-hand necessarily.
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I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
