Isla Fisher
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A small pair of ginger balls.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It would improve the quality of all of our lives if we just got rid of all unessential vehicles in New York City.
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Taking time every day to read the Bible.
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About 30 years.
Not being in pain – I have back problems and had shoulder surgery just before Christmas and there isn’t a day that goes by when I am not in pain.
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View profile →When I was first acting, in college, a relative came and saw me in Hedda Gabler and she said: “Look in the mirror, you’re not an actor. An actor looks like Mel Gibson.”
I was doing The Seagull with Carey Mulligan and Kristin Scott Thomas on Broadway. I walked out on stage and looked at Carey and said: “I’ve no idea what to say.” It was pretty deep into the run and it took me by surprise.
Nurturing, musical, uncompromising.
To tell the truth.
Losing my mind.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
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