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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It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.
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The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.
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I want to offer plus-size women the opportunity to wear fun colors and to avoid the pitfalls of only wearing black because many curvy girls think it is the only color that is slimming.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
