My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready … - Callie Khouri

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I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

Callie Khouri

My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer many times until you find your way through it and are fortunate enough to get something made.

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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

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The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

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By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

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