Callie Khouri Quotes
Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
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Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
