Martha Plimpton Quotes

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
  • Moments
  • My Life

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Morning

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Food

• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
  • Lived

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Everyone
  • Measure
  • Paper

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Friends
  • Trust

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Business
  • Poverty

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends - as soon as I'd say, 'I gotta go home now,' they fell in love.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Home
  • Star
  • Boyfriend

• When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Time
  • Character

• How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • World
  • Important
  • High

• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Comedy
  • Listening
  • Drama

• At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

  

  Martha Plimpton
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