Martha Plimpton Quotes
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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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We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
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The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.
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If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.
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I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.
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It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.
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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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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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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
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I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.
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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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It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
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Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
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I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.
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Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
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I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
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Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way
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I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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I am a United States citizen and I vote.
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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.
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Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
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During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.
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There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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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 almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.
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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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