Elizabeth Fishel Quotes
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.
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I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
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I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.
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Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
