Martha Plimpton Quotes

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Martha Plimpton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EqualityAmericanToo MuchWayUp

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

GreatWantBecomeLittleFortune

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

FamilyFreedomChildrenParentsNew

I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes please!'

Amber Stevens

WorkLoveOpportunityComedyYesTV

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

TodayParentingCreativityCreative

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

Trevor McDonald

FamilyFatherHistoryHairBlack

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin

LoveGreatFireWindSmallAbsence

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

Roland Emmerich

SuccessMatterOutBecauseMovie

You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

Michael Schiavo

ParentsMeYouKnowFighterRaised

We all have our own closets to come out of.

Judith Light

OutOwnComeOurClosets

The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

Johnny Flynn

LoveMusicHopeParentingTheatre

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Diplo

MoneyWeekendYearSometimesMore

Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Denis Leary

FirePeopleAmericaKnowUrbanMost

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