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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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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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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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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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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I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
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We're taught as a society what is acceptable for women to look like and what's not. And where fat should be and shouldn't. And I think it's important to sometimes reprogram ourselves and recondition ourselves to not have so much negativity toward our own bodies.
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I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
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A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.
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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
