William Emerson Arnett (Will Arnett) Quotes
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
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The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.
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I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn't think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.'
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When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
