Michael Arndt Quotes

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Michael Arndt

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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Jim Lehrer

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I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

Joe Sacco

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We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

John Eaton

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I thought boxing was stupid.

John G. Avildsen

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Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.

Jeffrey Brown

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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Tom Robbins

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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

Ruth Negga

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I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

Rufus Wainwright

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When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

Chet Williamson

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I have a lot of money.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Alice Walker

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I love wrestling. I love WWE. I love being a part of something special every single night we go out there.

Seth Rollins

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