Richard Platt Quotes
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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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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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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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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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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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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My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
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The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.
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A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.
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Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
