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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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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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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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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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.
