Martha Plimpton Quotes
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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Too much emotion is like none at all.
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There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
