Salman Rushdie Quotes
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.Salman Rushdie
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
Carlton Cuse -
I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
Malala Yousafzai -
I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
Samantha Bee -
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
Dan Gilbert -
I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
Nathalie Emmanuel
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
Pat Buchanan -
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig -
When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
Vicky McClure -
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
Manu Bennett
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
Victoria Principal -
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
Banks -
I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
Finn Jones -
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson -
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
Faye Dunaway -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
Wendy Cope -
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
Sean Connery -
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie