Michael Arndt Quotes
I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
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I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
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I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.
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Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
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Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.
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People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.
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I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
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Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
