Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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I love martial – arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung–fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.
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Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
