Martha Plimpton Quotes

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

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• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Glamourous

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• You know, you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a toddler. On a terrorist, the diaper is gonna be on the head, all right? That's how you can tell the difference. very loud applause It's upsetting. Unbelievable. They got absolutely nothing in common except both diapers are full of crap.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• The artist lives only day by day, and is the recipient of the things that surround him; he transposes sensations from outside, according to what the fate reserves him, but transforms them relentlessly and tenaciously, in a manner determined by him alone.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Alone
  • Fate

• Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Poetry

• 'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Attitude

• If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Hope
  • Identity

• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Character

• Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Nice

• More than anything tough, I play 'Madden'. I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I'm really into them.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Football

• There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Free
  • Relationship
  • Health

• New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Annoyed

• My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Political

• I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Thinking
  • Help

• Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

  

  James Caan
  • Up

• No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Country
  • Proud
  • English

• I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Fierce

• I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Fierce