Martha Plimpton Quotes
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.
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I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
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It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
