Oliver Platt Quotes
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I was an expert horseman.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
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I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.
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We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'
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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
