Michael Arndt Quotes
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
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Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too.
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Because there are no fours.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.
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The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
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Denial, they say, stands for "Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.
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You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.
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A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
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When you believe in something, you can move mountains.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.
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I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.
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My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
