Salman Rushdie Quotes
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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I like life to surprise me.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
