Emma Ishta Quotes

My last name is actually my middle name. Gotcha!

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• We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Lost

• Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Know
  • Light
  • Fruit

• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Leadership
  • Storm
  • Ship

• I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Model

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • World
  • Great
  • Humanity

• As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • True
  • Education
  • Criticism

• I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Love
  • Like
  • Really

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Best
  • End
  • Same

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Rock

• May I borrow your wheelbarrow?— I didn't lay down my life in World War IIso that you could borrow my wheelbarrow

  

  Adrian Mitchell
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God

• You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

  

  Mary Beard

• What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Music

• When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Perfect
  • Passion

• I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Family

• These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • People
  • Community
  • Destiny

• Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

  

  Charles Bass

• When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.

  

  Bruno Maag
  • Running
  • Value
  • Design

• This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

  

  Michael Chiklis
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Genre

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• My last name is actually my middle name. Gotcha!

  

  Emma Ishta