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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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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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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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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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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There's just something hypnotic about maps.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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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.
