Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes
I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.
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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
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I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
