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.Salman Rushdie
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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.
Octavia Spencer -
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas -
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
Bear Grylls -
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.
Oscar de la Renta -
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.
Tamra Davis
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
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.
Flavor Flav -
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
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.'
Ed Speleers
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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.
Hal Boyle -
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.
Parker Stevenson -
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.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi -
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber -
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
Dimitri Payet -
I would say that when you do something out of the goodness of your heart, and you don't know what the repercussions will be, you have to live with that. And it can be devastating. Because the intention was there.
Chrissy Metz -
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
Ben Foster -
In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.
Peggy Lipton -
I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.
Esther Renay Dean -
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie