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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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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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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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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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.
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Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
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Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'
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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.
