Salman Rushdie Quotes
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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We've killed more Muslims than they've killed us by an awful lot, and we've invaded more Islamic nations. But we're exempted from these things?
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A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
