Salman Rushdie Quotes
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
Carine Roitfeld
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
Natasha Trethewey
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
Eddie Huang
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
Randy Quaid
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
Cameron Mackintosh
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
Sam Heughan
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Kate Winslet
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
Gavid Hood
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
Brit Hume
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It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.
Emma Bull
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
