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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High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
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When I remember those difficult days, I remember the fear, I remember the strength, I remember that hand of that fellow American soldier, reassuring me that I was going to be okay.
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'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.
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I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
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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.
