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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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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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.
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I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
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When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!
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If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
