Salman Rushdie Quotes
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
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If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
