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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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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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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People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.
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'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiyaraaja and Shreya Ghoshal.
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How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.
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I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
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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.
