Marc Platt Quotes
I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Think and grow rich.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.
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I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.
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I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
