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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It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.
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I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.
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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.
