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 shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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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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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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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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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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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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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
