Martha Plimpton Quotes
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
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When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
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I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.
