Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes
You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.
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Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.
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If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.
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The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.
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My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?
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A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
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Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the culture is ready to recognize as mothering or fathering, but who most certainly is an excellent parent.
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You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.
