William Emerson Arnett (Will Arnett) Quotes
Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I love proving people wrong.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.
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The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
