Martha Plimpton Quotes
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Music is about the performance.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders... the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and... manipulates the credit of the United States
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There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.
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The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.
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I like things that are civilized.
