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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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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For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
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Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
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True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.
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I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.
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Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.
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I am wedded to who I am.
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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
