Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
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My mother often tells me not to drive back home late in the night. But like all youngsters, I suggest that there is nothing to worry. I tell her I have my driver, I have my security.
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I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
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I am awestruck and I am happy to see that the book fair happens. I’ve learnt everything I know on the go, like my mother tongue.
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I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
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My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.
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I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.
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I want answers now or I want them eventually!
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Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.
