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
  • Light
  • Know
  • 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

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Politics
  • Movies
  • Were

• 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

• Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

  

  Fat Joe
  • Say
  • Lucky
  • Oh

• 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 believe that children should not be made to work.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

  

  Swizz Beatz
  • Personal
  • Sell
  • Artwork

• When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

  

  Alison Mosshart
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Night

• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Character
  • Mirror
  • Property

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

  

  Emma Ishta