Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
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I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
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To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
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Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.
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India is my kid sister.
