Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn’t be able to see my feet.
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When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
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When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
