Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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He could make our decision easy - one way or another.
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An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.
