Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I like music a lot.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.
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When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
