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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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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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.

  

  Venus Williams
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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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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  • Space
  • Proud

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
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• We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
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  • India

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
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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.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• 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!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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  • History

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
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• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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  • Train
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• There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Script

• Death always seems to be around me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Death
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  • Always

• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
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• For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • London

• As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• There'll always be a difference between a star and an actor. I've nothing against stars. They've earned it and deserve it. I'm happy being just an actor.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Happy
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• When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

  

  Kelly Stables
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Success

• The goal was just to finish the movie and get it out in a few theaters. To think that decades later people would still be thinking and talking about it, I could have never imagined.

  

  Don Coscarelli
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • People