Marc Platt Quotes
Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you're learning.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
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When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'
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Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you're learning.
