Ben Platt Quotes
I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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The world is always in movement.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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A dermatologist you trust is your greatest weapon.
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I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.
