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.
Ed Miliband -
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Wattleton -
I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
Candice Swanepoel -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
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
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
Patrick deWitt -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
Mary Beard
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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.
Charles Hazlewood -
I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.
Elizabeth Olsen -
On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.
Brin-Jonathan Butler -
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho -
I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.
James Nesbitt -
'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
Elvis Mitchell
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
Rachel Corrie -
I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
Adam Wingard -
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Charles Baudelaire -
Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.
Johnny Colt Train -
All of my writing is God-given.
Ray Bradbury -
My last name is actually my middle name. Gotcha!
Emma Ishta