Salman Rushdie Quotes
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.
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Strive to be authentic, not perfect.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
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I have been sexist before. I have called girls names. I have gone with the misogynist flow.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
