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 honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
