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It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
Martha Plimpton
Funny
Mom
Family
Man
Woman
Television
Foil
She
Common
Straight
Straight Man
I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
Martha Plimpton
Hate
People
Own
Say
Those
Television
Whenever
Who
Watch
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
Martha Plimpton
Life
You
Come
Ready
Them
Prepared
Things
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
Martha Plimpton
Life
My Life
Poverty
Most
Am
Familiar
Actress
Profoundly
I live like a crazy old pack rat.
Martha Plimpton
Crazy
Old
Rat
Live
Like
Pack
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
Martha Plimpton
Character
Old
Like
Antiques
Cluttered
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.
Martha Plimpton
Character
Culture
Joke
Think
Extra
Cigarettes
Punch
Punch Line
Prop
Instant
Puts
Like
Line
Texture
Contrast
Them
Really
Useful
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.
Martha Plimpton
Time
Health
Women
Political
Long
Healthy
Past
Control
Tool
Focusing
Moral
Solutions
Instead
Cultural
Past Time
Aspects
Using
Keep
Actually
Basic
Started
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.
Martha Plimpton
Good
Me
Soul
Reality
Black
Healthy
Bit
Television
Would
Find
See
My Soul
Because
Did
Just
Disgusted
Anymore
Little
Little Bit
Reality Television
Turned
Found
Awhile
Watch
Watched
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.
Martha Plimpton
Life
Mom
Me
World
Chill
Country
Summer
Mine
Adjust
Records
Take
Development
She
Read
Very
Train
Expect
Expected
Did
Listen
Anything
Across
Used
Expose
Rides
Her
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.
Martha Plimpton
Love
Time
Character
Consistency
Be True
Some
Give
True
Maintain
Audience
Fresh
Same
Same Time
Want
While
Grow
Keeping
Things
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.
Martha Plimpton
Work
Together
People
Roof
Country
Living
Generations
Weird
Make
How
Lot
Trying
Same
Now
Right
Four
I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
Martha Plimpton
Love
Because
Dogs
Adaptable
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
Martha Plimpton
Me
Situation
Living
Unusual
Making
Making A Living
Working
I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.
Maud Welzen
Work
Kids
Would
Like
Model
Really
Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.
Maud Welzen
Once
Paris
Days
Terrified
Bed
Am
Mice
Mouse
Apartment
Found
Sleep
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
Maud Welzen
Music
Different Kinds
Kinds
House
Lot
Listen
Different
Moment
I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
Maud Welzen
Love
Dramatic
Magazines
Absolutely
Like
Read
Novels
I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.
Maud Welzen
Best
Good
World
Think
Like
Cookies
Makeup does a lot for your confidence. When I put makeup on, I walk taller. I smile more. I feel good. I know I look prettier. Even if I just put day makeup on.
Maye Musk
Smile
Good
Day
Confidence
Feel Good
Walk
Prettier
More
Put
Feel
Know
Look
Taller
Does
Makeup
Lot
Just
Your
Even
I eat the basic food groups: fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, good fats and oils. I do have butter on my bread because it's delicious. I eat meat, especially chicken, sparingly, because I'm not a good cook.
Maye Musk
Good
Food
Vegetables
Dairy
Fats
Eat
Delicious
Because
Chicken
Bread
Grains
Oils
Fruits
Sparingly
Cook
Meat
Good Cook
Whole
Groups
Butter
Basic
It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.
Maye Musk
Women
Amazing
Older
Focusing
See
Magazines
How
Real
Been
Brands
Stories
Older Women
Designers
My best piece of style advice is to keep your wardrobe small and love everything in it.
Maye Musk
Love
Best
Advice
Style
Everything
Small
Piece
Wardrobe
Your
Keep
When you have confidence, you do feel like you're much younger.
Maye Musk
You
Confidence
Feel
Like
Younger
Much
I was a nerdy student.
Maye Musk
Nerdy
Student
I've never been scared of aging.
Maye Musk
Scared
Never
Been
Aging
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