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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I like to prove people wrong.
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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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We want these movies to be timeless, and we want people to really engage with the characters and find something that they can really relate to and emotionally connect with.
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William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
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'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.
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All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
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Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
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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.
