Martha Plimpton Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
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I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.
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I've always found it interesting when I look at a woman, and she's beautiful and everything, but there's an inner strength.
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I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.
