Michael Arndt Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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We need another wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of earth.’
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In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
