Salman Rushdie Quotes
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.
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I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
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England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.