Isabel Gillies Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.
