Salman Rushdie Quotes
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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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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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I just roll with the punches.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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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 love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.
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You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
