Martha Plimpton Quotes
I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.
