Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.
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People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
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A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
