Isabelle Holland Quotes
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.
