Isabel Gillies Quotes

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

Isabel Gillies

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• Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Art
  • Job

• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Mistake
  • Service
  • Honesty

• On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • New Things

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Reality
  • Comedy
  • Star

• I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Normal

• Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Worried
  • Attorney
  • Troubled

• Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Type
  • Amount

• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Night
  • City
  • Thought

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Imagine
  • Greater

• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Community
  • Always
  • Israel

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • School
  • Hotel

• Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Saying

• If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• The principal advantages of living in your station’s section house is that it is cheap, close to work and it’s not your parents’ flat. The disadvantages are that you’re sharing your accommodation with people too weakly socialised to live with normal human beings, and who habitually wear heavy boots. The weak socialisation makes opening the fridge an exciting adventure in microbiology, and the boots mean that every shift change sounds like an avalanche.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • House
  • Human Beings
  • Advantages

• God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. But I want to focus on what I can do, not on what I cannot do. So help me God. I know this day will never be repeated. I know I cannot live it over again. Help me to live it to its fullest.

  

  Ed Dobson
  • God
  • Limitations
  • Repeated

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Humans
  • Differences
  • Conditions

• When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Become
  • Discover
  • Event