Martha Plimpton Quotes
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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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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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The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.
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Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
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All of it is bad. We just struggled so badly offensively. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. They did a great job with Tracy (McGrady) struggling. Sloppy, we just didn't play well, just didn't take care of the ball.
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Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
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If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter.
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Actors, they come and go, you know.
