Martha Plimpton Quotes
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There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
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In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.
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I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'
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I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.
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It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.
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Who owns your body? You or the state?
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See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.
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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
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I am a United States citizen and I vote.
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Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.
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A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
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At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
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The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
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My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
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I like things that are civilized.
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I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.
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I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.
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My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
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Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
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If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.
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Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
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It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
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It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.