Michael Arndt Quotes
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.
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La presse est une bouche forcée d'être toujours ouverte et de parler toujours. De là vient qu'elle dit mille fois qu'elle n'a rien à dire.
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They used to have clauses and contracts where you can't get bad publicity or you'd get fired. But now bad publicity is good publicity. I just keep working and don't think about it much.
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Class clowns become actors.
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In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
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It's incumbent upon a director, if you want to pull the best performance out of an actor, you have to really work to who they are and how they work and not just expect them to hit a mark every time. You have to be very adaptable in the approach that you use with every different actor.
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“No one is born a genius.Just keep doing what you like and that itself is a talent.”
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There is definitely a fuck-you quality to the characters I choose.
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Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
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Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
