Emma Ishta Quotes
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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.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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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.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May I borrow your wheelbarrow?— I didn't lay down my life in World War IIso that you could borrow my wheelbarrow
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You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
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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.
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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.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.
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Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.
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My last name is actually my middle name. Gotcha!
