Michael Arndt Quotes
Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
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My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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Hello, my name is Zach Galifianakis, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
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'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
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I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.
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No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.
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I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
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Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.
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Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.
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There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
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I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
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Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
