Salman Rushdie Quotes
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I like risky stuff.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
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I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
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You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
