Isabel Lucas quote: "People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zon...
ISABEL LUCAS

I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! Th...
ISABEL LUCAS

Mom worked with autistic children.
ISABEL LUCAS

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There&...
ISABEL LUCAS

I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think t...
ISABEL LUCAS

I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They ...
ISABEL LUCAS

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.
ISABEL LUCAS

I've spent months living in Africa and India. So it's not like I was sheltered when I starte...
ISABEL LUCAS

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.
ISABEL LUCAS

My best friend was Aboriginal. She taught me about 'bush tucker' - the food of the land, the...
ISABEL LUCAS

I eat lots of veggies and pasta and nuts, tofu and soups. Works well for my body, and I also feel mo...
ISABEL LUCAS

This is not a quote but it is the only way I found to contact you. Please note the following: You ar...
ISABEL

"If cats could talk, they'd sing as Frank Sinatra. If dogs could talk, they'd act as Chris Farley".
ISABEL

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there ...
ISABEL WILKERSON

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons....
ISABEL ALLENDE

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political backg...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
ISABEL ALLENDE

I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to fo...
ISABEL ALLENDE

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
ISABEL ALLENDE

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umb...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.
ISABEL ALLENDE

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give i...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in techni...
ISABEL ALLENDE

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
ISABEL ALLENDE

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
ISABEL ALLENDE

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number o...
ISABEL ALLENDE

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and...
ISABEL ALLENDE

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all t...
ISABEL GILLIES

Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the com...
ISABEL NORTON

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States co...
ISABEL ALLENDE

In my friend, I find a second self.
ISABEL NORTON

We only have what we give.
ISABEL ALLENDE

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...
ISABEL ALLENDE

This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and not becau...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
ISABEL ALLENDE

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below ther...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Write what should not be forgotten
ISABEL ALLENDE

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
ISABEL ALLENDE

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.
ISABEL ALLENDE

I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lover...
ISABEL ALLENDE

This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have...
ISABEL ALLENDE

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to both...
ISABEL COLEGATE

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
ISABEL ALLENDE

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
ISABEL ALLENDE

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The f...
ISABEL ALLENDE

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible...
ISABEL ALLENDE

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose t...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the gr...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in t...
ISABEL ALLENDE

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
ISABEL ALLENDE

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
ISABEL ALLENDE

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I hav...
ISABEL ALLENDE

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will b...
ISABEL ALLENDE

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only...
ISABEL ALLENDE

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the B...
ISABEL WILKERSON

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no lo...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, s...
ISABEL ALLENDE

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my cou...
ISABEL ALLENDE

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological ord...
ISABEL ALLENDE

The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch ...
ISABEL YOSITO

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jaco...
ISABEL GILLIES

Write what should not be forgotten.
ISABEL ALLENDE

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, b...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do n...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.
ISABEL GILLIES

We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks...
ISABEL YOSITO

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the ...
ISABEL YOSITO

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world&#...
ISABEL ALLENDE

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the gre...
ISABEL WILKERSON

Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, ...
ISABEL GILLIES

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
ISABEL PATERSON

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I love...
ISABEL GILLIES

It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was...
ISABEL GILLIES

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee a...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative fam...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!
ISABEL YOSITO

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards t...
ISABEL LOPEZ

What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find m...
ISABEL WOLFF

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is li...
ISABEL WILKERSON

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spa...
ISABEL ALLENDE

The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.
ISABEL YOSITO

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Go...
ISABEL ALLENDE

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
ISABEL PATERSON

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's f...
ISABEL CURRIER.

I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in...
ISABEL ALLENDE

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing...
ISABEL WAXMAN

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
ISABEL ALLENDE

May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
ISABEL YOSITO

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and whe...
ISABEL WILKERSON

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never...
ISABEL ALLENDE

As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakd...
ISABEL GILLIES

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end....
ISABEL GILLIES

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour du...
ISABEL GILLIES

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I ha...
ISABEL ALLENDE

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit wit...
ISABEL YOSITO

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
ISABEL ALLENDE

¿Qué nos pasó? Tal vez estamos en el mundo para buscar el amor, encontrarlo y perderlo, una y otr...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable s...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, ben...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
ISABEL YOSITO

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone...
ISABEL GILLIES

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my reade...
ISABEL ALLENDE

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look a...
ISABEL ALLENDE

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women....
ISABEL ALLENDE

... la vida es ante todo luz y se necesita muy poco para apagar esa luz.
ISABEL ABEDI

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don&#...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generati...
ISABEL GILLIES

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming u...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear...
ISABEL ALLENDE

شيئًا فشيئًا أخذ غيابك وخسارات أخرى في حياتي بالتحول إ�...
ISABEL ALLENDE

If you can’t believe in miracles, then believe in yourself. When you want something bad enough, le...
ISABEL LOPEZ

There isn’t a dance that can compare to the gaiety, the timing and cohesiveness of hand maneuvers,...
ISABEL LOPEZ

There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky t...
ISABEL GILLIES

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your s...
ISABEL YOSITO

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants...
ISABEL PATERSON

It's no good coming here. We'll watch it on the telly.
ISABEL SHEEHAN

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio.
ISABEL ALLENDE

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
ISABEL ALLENDE

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in m...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he’...
ISABEL LOPEZ

Ich bin zu unerfahren, um Erfahrungen zu sammeln«, fasse ich mein Dilemma zusammen.
ISABEL SHTAR

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
ISABEL ALLENDE

En el amor nadie piensa en la conveniencia.
ISABEL ALLENDE

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to governme...
ISABEL PATERSON

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as m...
ISABEL HOVING

Estaba feliz de haber perdido todo.
ISABEL ALLENDE

It’s funny how much easier it is to see others’ shortcomings and give advice when you’re not p...
ISABEL LOPEZ

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long ...
ISABEL FONSECA

But I don't want more things than I need, either.
ISABEL ALLENDE

At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
ISABEL ALLENDE

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
ISABEL ALLENDE

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insu...
ISABEL ALLENDE

توجد دائمًا طريقة لعمل ما ، ولدينا الإرادة لعمله
ISABEL ALLENDE

Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my moth...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe p...
ISABEL GILLIES

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the ...
ISABEL GILLIES

السنون تمضي بتكتم على رؤوس أصابعها ساخرةً بصوتٍ هامس و�...
ISABEL ALLENDE

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly f...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the po...
ISABEL ALLENDE

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, a...
ISABEL ALLENDE

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always...
ISABEL ALLENDE

What's supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw thei...
ISABEL HOVING

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematic...
ISABEL PATERSON

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' w...
ISABEL SANFORD

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m...
ISABEL ALLENDE

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You w...
ISABEL GILLIES

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. ...
ISABEL WOLFF

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with peop...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
ISABEL ALLENDE

La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino.
ISABEL ALLENDE

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
ISABEL ALLENDE

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutor...
ISABEL GILLIES

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is...
ISABEL ALLENDE

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction
ISABEL ALLENDE

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the po...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her whi...
ISABEL ALLENDE

volveremos a encontrarnos en mejores circunstancias o en otras vidas
ISABEL ALLENDE

ان الكلمات مثل العصافير ، تمضي طليقة دون نظام ولا وعي و�...
ISABEL ALLENDE

Щастието не е бляскаво и шумно като удоволствието или �...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...
ISABEL ALLENDE

When they (hurricane victims) go into apply, they'll find that somebody has already done it in their...
ISABEL WINGERTER

We're going to see a big jump at the pump because the price of gas has increased.
ISABEL WINGERTER

For instance, we know in other countries that there is a powerful connection between nationalism and...
ISABEL MARCUS

We hope to raise awareness and consciousness regarding some of the broader issues that may not recei...
ISABEL MARCUS

For example, within the U.S. military today there arise all kinds of questions about what the bounda...
ISABEL MARCUS

The market is just waiting for the outcome of the meeting at this point, but the trend is to assume ...
ISABEL LEMOS

It would make it very complicated for Brazil to lower rates in the mid term.
ISABEL LEMOS

The fear of higher U.S. rates is taking its toll on the Dow Jones and on us. Coming on the heels of ...
ISABEL LEMOS

This loan directly supports the Government of Mexico's efforts to increase growth in order to improv...
ISABEL GUERRERO

Prevention of financial crises is essential to poverty alleviation. A strong financial sector is key...
ISABEL GUERRERO

Judging by the clothes he is wearing, we're talking about a senior official who was buried wrapped i...
ISABEL FLORES

All I could hear was screaming.
ISABEL COSTA

It was a beautiful sight. I won't see one again. I got very emotional and the tears just flowed.
ISABEL BALSET

I should have seduced you at the ball,” she said. “Kilts are probably much more convenient.” ISABEL COOPER

Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning
ISABEL RAMOS

Me reconcilié conmigo mismo, me acepté con un poco de benevolencia y entonces tuve mi primer atisb...
ISABEL ALLENDE

It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to ex...
ISABEL LOPEZ

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below the...
ISABEL ALLENDE

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

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People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

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