Marc Platt Quotes
The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I don't like controversy.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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L.A.'s been my home.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
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The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
