Salman Rushdie Quotes
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
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The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.
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When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.
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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
