Emma Ishta Quotes
I absolutely love working in Australia. Overseas is a lot tougher - it's really hard to break into campaigns over there.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?
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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.
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Although computer science tends to be thought of as a traditionally male-dominated field, the world’s first programmer was a woman.
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I absolutely love working in Australia. Overseas is a lot tougher - it's really hard to break into campaigns over there.
