Martha Plimpton Quotes
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
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Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
