Michael Arndt Quotes
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.
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There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
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Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it embodies William Strunk’s famous dictum, Omit needless words, at the keystroke level.
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
