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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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
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To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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We are extremely proud of our 'ABC funny' brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.
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Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.
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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.
