Martha Plimpton Quotes

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• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Better
  • Everyone

• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• I've had many ideas come from clients.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Ideas
  • Many
  • Clients

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Deadline

• Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • You
  • Politics
  • Turn

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Few

• Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Truth
  • Conflict

• If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

  

  Said Nursi
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Eye

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Sports

• My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Dad

• You won’t believe this one, folks. Belfour tries to clear the puck in overtime. Nelson Emerson grabs the puck, now watch: he’s skating out in front, he’s got the puck in his hand, Eddie tries to stop him, he reaches around and throws it in the net and, believe it or not, they count it! The Hawks say what are you counting that? [Darryl] Sutter’s not too happy. With video replay, how can they count a goal like that?

  

  Donald Stewart Cherry
  • Count
  • Throws
  • Puck

• As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • History
  • Crime

• And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Art
  • Stories
  • Everybody

• There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

  

  Martha Plimpton