Callie Khouri Quotes
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
