Martha Plimpton Quotes
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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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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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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.
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When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
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I would call on you to devote urgent attention to scaling this action up and look forward to learning about progress later in the year.
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
