Salman Rushdie Quotes
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
