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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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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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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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.
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I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.
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I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.
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I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.
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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.
