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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• I think I'm very old-fashioned.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Think
  • Very
  • Old-fashioned

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• 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.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• 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.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Day

• Money for me today does not really matter.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Today
  • Me

• I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Little

• 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.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • You
  • Deep

• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Man
  • Study

• My witness is the empty sky.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Witness

• Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Live
  • Country

• Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Genius

• Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

  

  Michael Arndt
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