Salman Rushdie Quotes
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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All my songs are where I am.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.
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We need another wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of earth.’
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You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
