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.
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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.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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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.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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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.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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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.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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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.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
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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.
