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 grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
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I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
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Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.
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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.
