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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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
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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.
