Martha Plimpton Quotes
I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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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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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.
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A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.
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People would be surprised to know I had a flip phone until 2015.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
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My passion for books has changed my life.
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I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
