Martha Plimpton Quotes

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.

Martha Plimpton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1970

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People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

John Astin

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In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Megan Smith

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I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

John le Carre

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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Robert Harris

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And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Toots Thielemans

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Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Roy Barnes

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If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

Jonah Peretti

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Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

Dennis Muren

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Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

Doug Henning

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'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Debra Messing

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There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Brian Eno

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Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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