Isabella Summers Quotes

I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.

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• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
  • Use

• I don't use emojis. I go vintage.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Use
  • Go
  • Vintage

• What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Write

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Different
  • Why
  • Better

• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Think
  • Write
  • Difficult

• If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • She
  • Want
  • Technology

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Better
  • Write

• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Write
  • Hero

• Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Play
  • Brain
  • Use

• Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

  

  Evan Dando
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Rock Star

• 'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Tree
  • Green

• Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

  

  David Steindl-Rast
  • Listening
  • Sound
  • Meaning

• I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.

  

  Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine
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