Martha Plimpton Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
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At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.
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No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
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I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
