Kelli Giddish Quotes

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.

I'm from Texas.

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.

I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

I'm a Texas girl.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.

Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.

You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.

In Mexico and Latin America, everything is big: Bigger emotions, bigger reactions. Here in the U.S., everything is more natural, more grounded and down to earth.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.