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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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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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 can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, "Susan Lucci. I have to do this.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
