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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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
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I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there was something about his character as a conflicted man, an Irish Protestant who spent much of his time representing England in different African nations, a gay man who, true to the times, kept his sexual orientation to himself, that kept playing in my head. I read on and around him, but a historical figure is not a story - it's not even a character - so my story, the one that I would develop into Valiant Gentlemen, had yet to reveal itself.
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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.
