Martha Plimpton Quotes
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.Martha Plimpton
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
M. J. Rose -
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston -
I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
Magic Johnson -
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
Ze Frank -
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner -
I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
Victoria Pendleton -
I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
Wendy Davis -
Reading is a huge part of life.
Daniel Curtis Lee -
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
Gary Ross -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld -
I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
Patricia Riggen -
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary -
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
Gary Bauer -
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
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If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
Newt Gingrich -
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
Uwe Boll -
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
Clayton Christensen -
It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.
Djimon Hounsou -
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
Martha Plimpton