Marc Platt Quotes
The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Life is like an analogy.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
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Don't forget the late '70s was dominated by people like the Queen of Disco Donna Summer and everybody who was in that bag. We were already in dance mode, the Bee Gees were out with the most fantastic record the world had ever heard, so the world was in the mode. Anything outside of that mode was secondary.
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I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
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The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.
