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
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
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
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar
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
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
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
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
Cameron Mackintosh
I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
Sam Heughan
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Kate Winslet
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T
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
IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
Jack Dorsey
My mother is a walking miracle.
Leonardo DiCaprio
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
Langston Hughes
You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.
Keri Hilson
The Clutch
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.
L. Tom Perry
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
