William Emerson Arnett (Will Arnett) Quotes
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it well, but you have to take it in the right sense. It is part and parcel of being in the industry.
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I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.
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I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.
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You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.
