Richard Platt Quotes
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I like being unconventional.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'
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Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
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I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.
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As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
