Gabriela Isler Quotes
As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
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Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
