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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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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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.
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
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I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
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There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have.
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
