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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I just want to continue to play football and be myself.
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In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
