Isla Fisher Quotes

I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.

Isla Fisher

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Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

Andre Aciman

LovedGeniusMeant To BeOutThrough

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Max Joseph

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I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Stephanie Herseth

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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Simone Weil

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Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Ronnie Barker

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It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

Lisa Hannigan

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At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Christine Quinn

YouNeedThingsGetStuckTimes

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

Pilou Asbaek

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When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

Phoebe Cates

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There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'

Phoebe Robinson

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I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Peter O'Toole

BabyWorkingJustLikeEverybody

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

Niecy Nash

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