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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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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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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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.
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L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.
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I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
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I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.
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People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
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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.
