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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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.
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There are a lot of big personalities in our family, and because of the way that we interact with each other - and the fact that the girls are beautiful, the little ones are adorable, and my husband is an Olympic champion - there was this perfect storm, where I think you kind of wanted to watch and go, 'Wow, what's happening with this family?'
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I'm an actor, not a clown.
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To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
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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.
