Martha Plimpton Quotes
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I owe everything to France.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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Characters - conventional women with minor eccentricities - flourished in our world, as Mrs. Cork had no doubt observed. But she'd failed to notice that the characters were all old, rich and pedigreed. Newcomers, especially those of moderate means, were expected to form an attractive but featureless chorus behind our few madcap divas.
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The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.
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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
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He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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My ultimate dream was to get to the Olympics. I never thought I would come away with two gold medals.
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I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.
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'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.
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Mr. Tenet had a monumental task to rebuild human intelligence-gathering capabilities devastated by eight years of liberal Clinton administration policies.
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This is the way of long and empty roads: nearly forgotten things surface and singing voices improve.
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Actors, they come and go, you know.
