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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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 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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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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I like to argue with the radio.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
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I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
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Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
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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.
