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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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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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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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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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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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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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.
