Michael Arndt Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
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My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
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I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
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In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
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I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
