Martha Plimpton Quotes

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• I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Jump
  • Ready
  • Ring

• I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• 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.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Me
  • Taught
  • Cautious

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Thought
  • Deserve
  • Plans

• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Human

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Time
  • Great
  • Father

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Brain
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Energy

• 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.'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Want
  • Seriously

• Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Phenomenal

• 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.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • People
  • Strong
  • Community

• While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Work
  • Believe

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Challenges

• I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Fun
  • Interesting
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