Isabel Gillies
Isabel Gillies
Isabel Gilliesis an actress and author. She played Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her memoir, "Happens Every Day," was a New York Times bestseller, and her most recent book is the young adult novel Starry Night...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 February 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
eaten fried shrimp
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.
early
You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.
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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.
anyone wrote
I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.
dropped kids terrible
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.
love
I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.
experience human slightly versions
I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.
funny life time totally
Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.
worker
My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.
cookbooks help including life reading
Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.
complex drops totally
Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.
dinner family growing mother recount sit table
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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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.
oils
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.