Quotes by Isabel Gillies - Page 1

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Therapy
Writing
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I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Being A Teenager
Teenagers
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Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Harsh
Life Funny Time
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I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails.
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Emails
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My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.
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Bee
Worker
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Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Life Sad Family
Entire Life
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No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.
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Different
Different Ways
Life Good Your
Go
Life Good Bad
Bad
Ways
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Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Heartbreak
Life Your Will
Cookbooks
Life Help Will
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Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Oil
Bath
Drops
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I've always been the person at the table who is like, 'I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?'
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Anybody Else
Rash
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You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Broken
Broken Heart
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I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.
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Human Experience
Versions
Same Thing
Similar
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When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.
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Dinner
Dinner Table
Evenings
Recount
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I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Dropped
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I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.
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Life Day Always
Memoirs
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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.
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Life Change Your
Discover
Event
Traumatic
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The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Ohio
Railroad
Underground
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In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare.
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Central Park
Ohio
Rare
Central
Dressed
Marc
Park
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I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.
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Impulse
Published
Tutors
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Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.
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Real Life
Rip
Robust
Life I Am Real
Author
Immensely
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It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face.
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Familiar
Work Face Your
Requires
Rub
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After I clean my face, I use combinations of sweet-almond, meadowfoam, grape-seed, coconut, black-currant, and argan oils to hydrate. Argan is probably my favorite for my face.
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Clean
Coconut
Combinations
Oils
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Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'
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Possibility
Love God Hope
Oh My God
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Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.
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Christmas
Accounts
Ashes
Cooking
Flour
Inspire
Potatoes
Resilience
Sweet Potatoes
Baked
Pioneer
Scratch
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You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved.
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Culinary
Most Amazing
Anyway
Backstage
Fish
Undeserved
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If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.
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Attention Span
Fantastic
Heartbroken
Plot
World Face Your
Face World Your
Span
Three-Quarters
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There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo.
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Lucky
Shrimp
Boy
Cocktail
Eaten
Fried
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I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Angela
Ashes
Biographies
Edited
Love Learning People
Castle
Glass
Memoirs
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My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Eggs
Every Night
Foundation
Supper
Feed
Feast
Full-Time
Lamb
Leg
Weekends
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When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.
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Afternoon
Clue
Coffee
Alone Time Work
Bleed
Breaks
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It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.
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Angela
Ashes
Frank
Irreverent
Lasting
Long Time Ago
Funny Love Time
Great Story
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Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps.
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Fog
Icy
Skeptical
Sun
Traps
Wind
Bewildering
Shoot
Howling
Lore
Messed
Strangers
Secrets
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I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Bad Stuff
Divorced
Navigate
Relate
Difficult Time
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.
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Beloved
Generations
Hunting
Laura
Preparing
Treasure
Wilder
Ate
Foods
Harvesting
Peek
Planting
Provides
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When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss.
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Colleague
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When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.
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Agony
Broken
Love Heart World
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As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakdown of proteins in the cell wall with fatty and linoleic acids, mimicking what our bodies produce naturally. The oils also function as humectants, which help our skin retain moisture.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Breakdown
Deeper
Fatty
Function
Layers
Mimicking
Penetrate
Produce
Wall
Naturally
Skin
Bodies
Cell
Oils
Protecting
Rapidly
Retain
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There are a lot of great love stories. It's just the best thing. Why wouldn't you write about it? Why wouldn't you want to read about it? But it's hard to write about. It's weird to have such a powerful and universal feeling and hope that you can write that and make it real for people.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Great Love
Love Best Hope
Love Stories
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I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.
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Ex Wife
Invited
Little Money
Ohio
Life Family Home
Life Family Money
Abruptly
Nowhere
Generously
Instantly
Sons
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I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.
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Inspirational
Marriage
Hurt
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