Marc Platt Quotes
The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
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I'm sad about it. I really thought Nicollette was a shoo-in. In terms of Eva, my prediction is she's leaving us all in the dust.
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Mon unique espérance est dans mon désespoir.
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In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
