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.
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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.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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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.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.
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It's not going to do anything. And it really is disappointing because the president has an opportunity here to work with organizations like the NRA, who have actually done a lot of significant work when it comes to actually keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. Hillary Clinton can attack the NRA all she wants, the fact is that the NRA has a higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does when it comes to trustworthiness, that's for sure.
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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
