Marc Platt Quotes

It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.

Marc Platt

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I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.

Joe Garagiola

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I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Matt LeBlanc

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I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

Shuji Nakamura

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Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Tom Stoppard

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Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

Romulus Whitaker

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What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Mike Birbiglia

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I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

Lou Barlow

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When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

Judy Sheindlin

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The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.

Jason Day

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A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Jon Meacham

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The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

Denise Dresser

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Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

Ali Fazal

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