Salman Rushdie Quotes

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Salman Rushdie

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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

Mahesh Babu
- School
- Home
- Kids
I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

Frances Fisher
- Fall
- Hunting
- Deer
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam
- Action
- Worry
- Optimism
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Sam Houston
- Time
- School
- Father
Another occupation might have been better.

F. H. Bradley
- Better
- Been
- Occupation
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

Gary Oldman
- Play
- Scary
- Emotions