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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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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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 obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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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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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I hope I can get out there and help the team that way, because we're a better team when I'm out there, ... Hopefully, one day, I'll wake up and feel better.
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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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So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
