Marc Platt Quotes
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - and we need to listen to the messages being sent. They are real messages - just as real as a human saying something to you.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
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Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
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Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.
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I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
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'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
