Marc Platt Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
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Casting is great fun, except for the business of it. I love the casting process. I love the editing process. I love working with the music. And even prep is very exciting. But once you get there and the clock is ticking, all it is is stress.
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You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
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We're all human beings; people make mistakes.
