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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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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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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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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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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Everyone has different layers to who they are.
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I want to emphasize having good, dedicated teachers in every classroom. We have the Teach for America program, which I strongly support.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
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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.
