Callie Khouri Quotes

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Callie Khouri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1957

Topics

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Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Jessica Hahn

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I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

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I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

Andra Day

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Max Eastman

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On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether.

Michael McKean

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The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Jose Andres

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I just love performing.

Debra Stephenson

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I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

Chris Paul

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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Colm Meaney

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Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

Bob Beckel

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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

Anthony Mackie

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