William Emerson Arnett (Will Arnett) Quotes
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.
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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.
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If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
